Random inhomogeneous media may possess unique physical properties that aresignificantly enhanced and may attain a level of practical importance andversatility t... » 

Random inhomogeneous media may possess unique physical properties that aresignificantly enhanced and may attain a level of practical importance andversatility that rivals or surpasses their geometrically ordered counterparts.Making judicious use of these enhancement effects as well as of other aspectsof the many complex resonances that distinguish these systems can lead to newand unexpected physics and many applications. Localization of various sorts ofoptical excitations occur and recur in a wide gamut of disordered systemsleading to the enhancement of many optical phenomena especially nonlinearprocesses. The book reviews recent advances in the nonlinear optics of randommedia and discusses numerous applications based on the unique properties ofnanostructured composite materials. The contributing authors are world bestexperts in the field and provide a stateoftheart description of the world ofthe optics of random media. TOCNanocomposite Materials for Nonlinear Optics.Response of Composite Media with Nonlinear Constituents. Properties of AuClusters Containing Dielectric Thin Films. Linear and Nonlinear OpticalProperties of Quasiperiodic 1D Structures. Optical Nonlinearities of FractalComposites. Nonlinear Optical Effects of Silver Colloidal Aggregates. FractalMicrocavity Composites Giant Optical Responses. Theory of Nonlinear OpticalResponses in MetalDielectric Composites. Surface Plasmon EnhancedNonlinearities in Percolating MetalDielectric Films. SERS and the SingleMolecule. Nonlinear Raman Probe of Single Molecules Attached to Silver andGold Colloidal Clusters. Electromagnetic Response of Ferromagnetic Cermets.Manipulating Light with a Magnetic Field. Random Lasers with CoherentFeedback. Localization Phenomena in Elastic Surface Plasmon PolaritonScattering. Multiple Scattering Phenomena in SecondHarmonic Generation ofLight. «