Waves in Complex Media

An interdisciplinary introduction to the structural and scattering properties of complex photonic media and their device applications.

Luca Dal Negro (Author)

9781107037502, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 May 2022

712 pages
25 x 17.4 x 3.4 cm, 1.48 kg

'This is a fascinating book by an internationally renowned scholar and experienced educator in the field of complex photonics. It offers a well-balanced, extensive treatment of this exciting multidisciplinary topic in terms of electromagnetic scattering and diffraction phenomena in spatially aperiodic structures, with connection to the mathematical foundations in geometry and number theory, and with a view towards applications in optical devices and photonic technology. I highly recommend this book as an informative source for those working in this field and as an inspirational gateway for those interested in entering this research area.' Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania

This book offers a clear and interdisciplinary introduction to the structural and scattering properties of complex photonic media, focusing on deterministic aperiodic structures and their conceptual roots in geometry and number theory. It integrates important results and recent developments into a coherent and physically consistent story, balanced between mathematical designs, scattering and optical theories, and engineering device applications. The book includes discussions of emerging device applications in metamaterials and nano-optics technology. Both academia and industry will find the book of interest as it develops the underlying physical and mathematical background in partnership with engineering applications, providing a perspective on both fundamental optical sciences and photonic device technology. Emphasizing the comprehension of physical concepts and their engineering implications over the more formal developments, this is an essential introduction to the stimulating and fast-growing field of aperiodic optics and complex photonics.

1. Introduction
2. Electromagnetics background
3. Optical dispersion models
4. Wave propagation and diffraction
5. Diffraction in optical engineering
6. Wave scattering and coherence
7. Structure factor and diffraction
8. Tailored disorder
9. Fundamentals of number theory
10. Aperiodic order in number theory
11. Aperiodic order and geometry
12. Multiple scattering
13. Analytical scattering theory
14. Transport and localization.

Subject Areas: Electrical engineering [THR], Materials science [TGM], Nanotechnology [TBN], Physics [PH]