Lasing applications have spread over various aspects of human life. To meet the developing
trends of the laser industry towards being miniature, portable, and highly integrated, new …

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 …

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 …

Optical diagnostics for fluid temperature measurements continue to further our
understanding of flows involving heat transfer and/or chemical reactions, which are intrinsic …

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 …

Research on hybrid inorganic‐organic materials has experienced an explosive growth since
the 1980s, with the expansion of soft inorganic chemistry based processes. Indeed, mild …

ZnO is presently experiencing a research boom with more than 2000 ZnO‐related
publications in 2005. This phenomenon is triggered, for example, by hope to use ZnO as a …

Several hundred thousands of tons of ZnO are used by per year, eg as an additive to
concrete or to rubber. In the field of optoelectronics, ZnO holds promises as a material for a …

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 …