Tutorials in complex photonic media / editors, Mikhail A. Noginov ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.

Noginov, Mikhail A.

Series:

SPIE Press monograph ; PM194.

Press monograph ; 194

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photonics.

Photonic crystals.

Metamaterials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (728 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Levy statistics in random laser emission

10.6. Discussion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About the editors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781615837083

1615837086

9780819480934

0819480932

OCLC:

606702154