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The field of complex photonic media encompasses many leading-edge areas in physics, chemistry, nanotechnology, materials science, and engineering. In [i]Tutorials in Complex Photonic Media[/i], leading experts have brought together 19 tutorials on breakthroughs in modern optics, such as negative refraction, chiral media, plasmonics, photonic crystals, and organic photonics.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
1. Negative refraction / Martin W. McCall and Graeme Dewar. 1.1. Introduction
1.2. Background
1.3. Beyond natural media: waves that run backward
1.4. Wires and rings
1.5. Experimental confirmation
1.6. The "perfect" lens
1.7. The formal criterion for achieving negative phase velocity propagation
1.8. Fermat's principle and negative space
1.9. Cloaking
1.10. Conclusion
Appendix I. The e([omega]) of a square wire array
Appendix II. Physics of the wire array's plasma frequency and damping rate
References
2. Optical hyperspace: negative refractive index and subwavelength imaging / Leonid V. Alekseyev, Zubin Jacob, and Evgenii Narimanov. 2.1. Introduction
2.2. Nonmagnetic negative refraction
2.3. Hyperbolic dispersion: materials
2.4. Applications
2.5. Conclusion
References.
3. Magneto-optics and the Kerr effect with ferromagnetic materials / Allan D. Boardman and Neil King. 3.1. Introduction to magneto-optical materials and concepts
3.2. Reflection of light from a plane ferromagnetic surface
3.3. Enhancing the Kerr effect with attenuated total reflection
3.4. Numerical investigations of attenuated total reflection
3.5. Conclusions
References
4. Symmetry properties of nonlinear magneto-optical effects / Yutaka Kawabe. 4.1. Introduction
4.2. Nonlinear optics in magnetic materials
4.3. Magnetic-field-induced second-harmonic generation
4.4. Effects due to an optical magnetic field or magnetic dipole moment transition
4.5. Experiments
References
5. Optical magnetism in plasmonic metamaterials / Gennady Shvets and Yaroslav A. Urzhumov. 5.1. Introduction
5.2. Why is optical magnetism difficult to achieve?
5.3. Effective quasistatic dielectric permittivity of a plasmonic metamaterial
5.4. Summary
5.5. Appendix. Electromagnetic red shifts of plasmonic resonances
References.
6. Chiral photonic media / Ian Hodgkinson and Levi Bourke. 6.1. Introduction
6.2. Stratified anisotropic media
6.3. Chiral architectures and characteristic matrices
6.4. Reflectance spectra and polarization response maps
6.5. Summary
References
7. Optical vortices / Kevin O'Holleran, Mark R. Dennis, and Miles J. Padgett. 7.1. Introduction
7.2. Locating vortex lines
7.3. Making beams containing optical vortices
7.4. Topology of vortex lines
7.5. Computer simulation of vortex structures
7.6. Vortex structures in random fields
7.7. Experiments for visualizing vortex structures
7.8. Conclusions
References
8. Photonic crystals: from fundamentals to functional photonic opals / Durga P. Aryal, Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis, and Ortwin Hess. 8.1. Introduction
8.2. Principles of photonic crystals
8.3. One-dimensional photonic crystals
8.4. Generalization to two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals
8.5. Physics of Inverse-Opal Photonic Crystals
8.6. Double-Inverse-Opal Photonic Crystals (DIOPCs)
8.7. Conclusion
8.8. Appendix: Plane Wave Expansion (PWE) method
References
9. Wave interference and modes in random media / Azriel Z. Genack and Sheng Zhang. 9.1. Introduction
9.2. Wave interference
9.3. Modes
9.4. Conclusions
References
10. Chaotic behavior of random lasers / Diederik S. Wiersma, Sushil Mujumdar, Stefano Cavalieri, Renato Torre, Gian-Luca Oppo, Stefano Lepri. 10.1. Introduction
10.2. Experiments on emission spectra
10.3. Experiments on speckle patterns
10.4. Modeling
10.5. Lévy statistics in random laser emission
10.6. Discussion
References.
11. Lasing in random media / Hui Cao. 11.1. Introduction
11.2. Random lasers with incoherent feedback
11.3. Random lasers with coherent feedback
11.4. Potential applications of random lasers
References. Color plate section. 12. Feedback in random lasers / Mikhail A. Noginov. 12.1. Introduction
12.2. The concept of a laser
12.3. Lasers with nonresonant feedback and random lasers
12.4. Photon migration and localization in scattering media and their applications to random lasers
12.5. Neodymium random lasers with nonresonant feedback
12.6. ZnO random lasers with resonant feedback
12.7. Stimulated emission feedback: from nonresonant to resonant and back to nonresonant
12.8. Summary of various random laser operation regimes
References
13. Optical metamaterials with zero loss and plasmonic nanolasers / Andrey K. Sarychev. 13.1. Introduction
13.2. Magnetic plasmon resonance
13.3. Electrodynamics of a nanowire resonator
13.4. Capacitance and inductance of two parallel wires
13.5. Lumped model of a resonator filled with an active medium
13.6. Interaction of nanontennas with an active host medium
13.7. Plasmonic nanolasers and optical magnetism
13.8. Conclusions
References.
14. Resonance energy transfer: theoretical foundations and developing applications / David L. Andrews. 14.1. Introduction
14.2. Electromagnetic origins
14.3. Features of the pair transfer rate
14.4. Energy transfer in heterogeneous solids
14.5. Directed energy transfer
14.6. Developing applications
14.7. Conclusion
References
15. Optics of nanostructured materials from first principles / Vladimir I. Gavrilenko. 15.1. Introduction
15.2. Optical response from first principles
15.3. Effect of the local field in optics
15.4. Electrons in quantum confined systems
15.5. Cavity quantum electrodynamics
15.6. Optical Raman spectroscopy of nanostructures
15.7. Concluding remarks
Appendix I. Electron energy structure and standard density functional theory
Appendix II. Optical functions within perturbation theory
Appendix III. Evaluation of the polarization function including the local field effect
Appendix IV. Optical field Hamiltonian in second quantization representation
References.
16 Organic photonic materials / Larry R. Dalton, Philip A. Sullivan, Denise H. Bale, Scott R. Hammond, Benjamin C. Olbrict, Harrison Rommel, Bruce Eichinger, and Bruce H. Robinson. 16.1 Preface
16.2 Introduction
16.3 Effects of dielectric permittivity and dispersion
16.4 Complex dendrimer materials: effects of covalent bonds
16.5 Binary Chromophore Organic Glasses (BCOGs)
16.6 Thermal and photochemical stability: lattice hardening
16.7 Thermal and photochemical stability: measurement
16.8 Devices and applications
16.9 Summary and conclusions
16.10. Appendix. Linear and nonlinear polarization
References.
17. Charge transport and optical effects in disordered organic semiconductors / Harry H. L. Kwok, You-Lin Wu, and Tai-Ping Sun. 17.1. Introduction
17.2. Charge transport
17.3. Impedance spectroscopy: bias and temperature dependence
17.4. Transient spectroscopy
17.5. Thermoelectric effect
17.6. Exciton formation
17.7. Space-charge effect
17.8. Charge transport in the field-effect structure
References
18. Holography and its applications / H. John Caulfield and Chandra S. Vikram. 18.1. Introduction
18.2. Basic information on holograms
18.2.1 Hologram types
18.3. Recording materials for holographic metamaterials
18.4. Computer-generated holograms
18.5. Simple functionalities of holographic materials
18.6. Phase conjugation and holographic optical elements
18.7. Related applications and procedures
References
In memoriam: Chandra S. Vikram
19. Slow and fast light / Joseph E. Vornehm, Jr. and Robert W. Boyd. 19.1. Introduction
19.2. Slow light based on material resonances
19.3. Slow light based on material structure
19.4. Additional considerations
19.5. Potential applications
References
About the editors
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online version available. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/3.832717
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