Laser action in strongly scattering media

NM Lawandy, RM Balachandran, ASL Gomes… - Nature, 1994 - nature.com
… in the presence of coherent optical scattering"". In the course of investigating the radiative
properties of a laser dye dispersed in a strongly scattering medium (a colloidal suspension of …

Light scattering in strongly scattering media: multiple scattering and weak localization

MB Van Der Mark, MP van Albada, A Lagendijk - Physical Review B, 1988 - APS
… New transmission and reflection experiments for strongly scattering media are presented. …
First we consider a scattering medium of infinite size and take advantage of the translational …

Group velocity in strongly scattering media

JH Page, P Sheng, HP Schriemer, I Jones, X Jing… - Science, 1996 - science.org
… of acoustic waves in a strongly scattering medium consisting of glass beads in water. The
data (symbols) are compared with the predictions of the effective medium theory(lines). …

Influence of a superficial layer in the quantitative spectroscopic study of strongly scattering media

MA Franceschini, S Fantini, LA Paunescu, JS Maier… - Applied …, 1998 - opg.optica.org
… -layered, strongly scattering media was obtained by computer simulations of a lattice random
walk for two layers that have the same lattice spacing (ie, the same scattering probability) …

Hidden black: Coherent enhancement of absorption in strongly scattering media

YD Chong, AD Stone - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
… absorbing, strongly scattering (white) medium can be made very strongly absorbing at any
… For a localized weak absorber buried in a nonabsorbing scattering medium, we find a large …

Focusing coherent light through opaque strongly scattering media

IM Vellekoop, AP Mosk - Optics letters, 2007 - opg.optica.org
… We demonstrate focusing of coherent light through disordered scattering media by the
construction of wavefronts that invert diffusion of light. Our method relies on interference and is …

Transition from amplified spontaneous emission to laser action in strongly scattering media

H Cao, JY Xu, SH Chang, ST Ho - Physical Review E, 2000 - APS
… In an active random medium, the combination of multiple scattering with light amplification
… By varying the amount of scattering in an amplifying random medium, we have observed the …

Propagation of photon-density waves in strongly scattering media containing an absorbing semi-infinite plane bounded by a straight edge

JB Fishkin, E Gratton - JOSA A, 1993 - opg.optica.org
… of the scattering particles. It … a strongly scattering medium is related to the effective optical
path, which is dependent on the absorption and transport scattering coefficients of the medium. …

Speed of propagation of classical waves in strongly scattering media

MP van Albada, BA van Tiggelen, A Lagendijk, A Tip - Physical review letters, 1991 - APS
… which demonstrate that in a strongly scattering medium containing resonant scatterers the
… in strongly scattering media, we came across a persistent discrepancy between l as found …

Focusing polychromatic light through strongly scattering media

HP Paudel, C Stockbridge, J Mertz, T Bifano - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
… polychromatic beam transmitted through a strongly scattering medium depends both on the
… distribution of random light trajectories through the scattering medium [28], we may speculate …