By Vladimir M. Shalaev

Nonlinear Optics of Random Media studies contemporary advances in in a single of the main widespread fields of physics. It presents an summary of the elemental versions of abnormal constructions of random inhomogeneous media and the techniques used to explain their linear electromagnetic houses. Nonlinearities in random media also are mentioned. The chapters might be learn independently, so scientists and scholars drawn to a particular challenge can cross on to the appropriate textual content.

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32 3. Small-Particle Fractal Aggregates ˆ with W ˆ |n = wn |n and exBy diagonalizing the interaction matrix W panding the 3N -dimensional dipole vectors in terms of the eigenvectors |n (as |d = n Cn |n ), we obtain the amplitudes of linear dipoles induced by the incident wave and the local fields. The local fields and dipoles are related as (0) Ei,α = α0−1 di,α = α0−1 αi,αβ Eβ . 32). It is given by [46] thus: αi,αβ ≡ αi,αβ (ω) = j,n iα|n n|jβ . 35) so that the expression for the local field is Ei,α = α0−1 j,n iα|n n|jβ (0) E .

6 for ten random cluster realizations, containing 500 particles each, is shown by the solid line From Fig. 4, we see that L(wn ) exhibits large fluctuations, especially near the central point X = 0. There are modes that are strongly localized and some that are delocalized. The mode localization increases, on average, toward larger values of |X|, so that for the most localized modes L(X) reduces to a dimension comparable to the size of a monomer, a. 3 Absorption Spectra of Fractal Aggregates 37 their sizes vary in a wide range; therefore, this localization is called inhomogeneous [48, 49].

This occurs because both localization of fractal excitations and their mode quality factor (q ∼ 1/δ ∼ | − h |2 /3 h ) increase in the long-wavelength part of the spectrum. Fig. 6. Enhancement factors G of local field intensities plotted against wavelength λ for various random aggregates: fractal CCAs (solid line); a nonfractal random gas of particles (RGP) with the same volume fraction of metal as for CCAs (shortdashed line); and a close-packed sphere of particles (CPSP; long-dashed line) We next perform a more detailed comparison between fractal smallparticle composites and nonfractal inhomogeneous media.

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