Focus
Disorder
- Focus issue:
- March 2013 Volume 7 No 3 pp161-256
The issue describes how light interacts with disordered, aperiodic and strongly scattering media to realize a variety of interesting optical phenomena. Topics covered include photonic quasi-crystals, random lasing, Anderson localization and hyper-transport of light as well as potential applications in imaging and next-generation light sources.
Editorial
Disordered times - p161
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.44
Two Nobel Prizes, as well as a growing number of papers and potential applications, suggest that research into disorder and aperiodicity is an increasingly popular undertaking that could offer a wealth of important applications.
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Interview
Random thoughts - pp164 - 165
Interview with Hui Cao
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.39
The study of random lasers based on disordered, scattering media has become an active topic of research in recent years. Nature Photonics spoke to Hui Cao from Yale University about developments in the area, potential applications and future opportunities.
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Reviews
Optics of photonic quasicrystals - pp177 - 187
Z. Valy Vardeny, Ajay Nahata & Amit Agrawal
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2012.343
The optical characteristics and applications of the quasicrystal, a special form of aperiodic engineered structure, are explored in this Review article.
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Disordered photonics - pp188 - 196
Diederik S. Wiersma
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.29
While historically considered as a great nuisance, disordered structures which scatter light are now yielding a wealth of applications in photonics, such as the creation of random lasers, the study of Anderson localization or the design of broadband reflection coatings. This Review article summarizes the opportunities explored to date.
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Anderson localization of light - pp197 - 204
Mordechai Segev, Yaron Silberberg & Demetrios N. Christodoulides
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.30
The Anderson localization of light within disordered media has become a topic of great interest in recent years. Here the characterization of the effect and its related phenomena are reviewed, with a discussion on the role that nonlinearity and quantum correlated photons can play.
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