The newly emerging field of wave front shaping in complex media has recently seen
enormous progress. The driving force behind these advances has been the experimental …

What do lotus flowers have in common with human bones, liquid crystals with colloidal
suspensions, and white beetles with the beautiful stones of the Taj Mahal? The answer is …

Recent developments in the field of micro and nanophotonics have shown that it is possible
to make use of the intrinsic disorder in photonic materials to create useful optical structures …

We report the first observation of random laser action with coherent feedback in
semiconductor powder. Since the scattering mean free path is less than the emission …

Among the unusual transport properties predicted for disordered materials is the Anderson
localization phenomenon. This is a disorder-induced phase transition in the electron …

This volume provides a thorough treatment of multiple scattering of light and other
electromagnetic radiation in media composed of randomly and sparsely positioned particles …

This educational work presents a new approach towards resonant interaction between
classical light and matter. The interaction between light and matter is considered from three …

In this paper we present calculations on light diffusion with amplification that can explain
previous experiments on the spontaneous emission from such a medium. Also we discuss …

Well-defined polycrystalline Cu2O was electrodeposited on transparent conducting
substrates from alkaline Cu (II) lactate solutions. The morphology of the layers could be …

Disordered dielectric materials with structural correlations show unconventional optical
behavior: They can be transparent to long-wavelength radiation, while at the same time …