Abstract Random Lasers (RLs) and Random Fiber Lasers (RFLs) have been the subject of
intense research since their first experimental demonstration in 1994 and 2007, respectively …

Nanofluids—a simple product of the emerging world of nanotechnology—are suspensions
of nanoparticles (nominally 1–100 nm in size) in conventional base fluids such as water …

One of the most rapidly growing areas of physics and nanotechnology focuses on plasmonic
effects on the nanometre scale, with possible applications ranging from sensing and …

Considered one of the major fields of photonics of the beginning 21 st century, plasmonics
offers the potential to confine and guide light below the diffraction limit and promises a new …

Scattering of light by disordered structures is a common phenomenon in our daily life. For
many scientific applications, scattering is often treated as a detrimental effect. However …

Nanophotonics is where photonics merges with nanoscience and nanotechnology, and
where spatial confinement considerably modifies light propagation and light-matter …

The concept of random lasers exploiting multiple scattering of photons in an amplifying
disordered medium in order to generate coherent light without a traditional laser resonator …

The random laser represents a non-conventional laser whose feedback is mediated by
random fluctuation of the dielectric constant in space. Depending on whether the feedback is …

We investigate the effects of two-dimensional confinement on the lasing properties of a
classical random laser system operating in the incoherent feedback (diffusive) regime. A …

A waveguide-plasmonic scheme is constructed by coating the matrix of randomly distributed
gold nanoisland structures with a layer of dye-doped polymer, which provides strong …