Light Dynamics in Active and Passive Randomized Media
Control and utilization of complex light fields are at the forefront of modern photonic research. This special issue explores light behavior and dynamics in both active and passive complex media, including biological tissues, multimode fibers, random lasers, and linear and non-linear disordered optical systems. The covered works emphasize harnessing disorder for spatio-temporal control of light fields and the creation of integrated devices and complex structures. The topics span disordered-based approaches for applications in unconventional imaging and sensing, light sources and optical devices, radiative cooling, information security and optical computing.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Random lasers/amplifiers
- Complex micro/nano structure-based lasers
- Light propagation and control in active and passive complex media
- Speckle-based spectrometry
- Speckle-correlated imaging
- Speckle-free imaging
- Disordered materials and nanophotonic surfaces for passive radiative cooling and solar cells
- Physical-layer security and physical unclonable functions
- Theoretical models and concepts to study randomized and nonlinear light propagation
- Intelligent algorithms to study and control light wave propagation through randomized media
- Novel interferometric measurement techniques
- Ultrafast light phenomena in random media
Guest Editors
Alice Boschetti, University of Florence
Stefan Rothe, Yale University
Weili Zhang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China