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 …

Photonic crystals have proven their potential and are nowadays a familiar concept. They
have been approached from many scientific and technological flanks. Among the many …

Herein, recent progress in fiber optofluidic lasers and their applications in biochemical
detection are reviewed. The unique properties of optical fibers are introduced for the …

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 …

Random lasers made out of disordered media have a rich but often unpredictable laser light
emission, in all directions and over many frequencies. Strategies for taming random lasing …

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 …

We report on surface plasmon (SP)-enhanced random laser emission from a suspension of
silver nanoparticles in a laser dye operating at diffusive and subdiffusive scattering …

The demonstration of the first ruby laser in 1960 led to a revolution in science and
technology. The lasers have significantly influenced the development of new approaches to …