
Diffuse Waves in Complex Media
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, March 17-27, 1998
Jean-Pierre Fouque(Editor)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 31. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 459 pages
978-0-7923-5680-6 (ISBN)
Description
The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Diffuse Waves in Complex Media was held at the "Centre de Physique des Houches" in France from March 17 to 27, 1998. The Schools' scientific content, wave propagation in heterogeneous me dia, has covered many areas of fundamental and applied research. On the one hand, the understanding of wave propagation has considerably improved during the last thirty years. New developments and concepts such as, speckle correlations, weak and strong localization, time reversal, near-field propagation are under active research. On the other hand, wave propagation in random media is now being investigated in many different fields such as applied mathematics, acoustics, optics, atomic physics, geo physics or medical sciences. Each community often uses its own langage to describe the same phenomena. The aim of the School was to gather worldwide specialists to illuminate various aspects of wave propagation in random media. This volume presents fourteen expository articles corresponding to courses and seminars given during the School. They are arranged as follows. The first three articles deal with the phenomena of localization of waves: B. van Tiggelen (p. 1) gives a critical review of the physics of localization, J. Lacroix (p. 61) presents the mathematical theory and A. Klein (p. 73) describes recent results for randomized periodic media.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
41 s/w Abbildungen
XI, 459 p. 41 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
709 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-5680-6 (9780792356806)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-4572-5
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Diffuse Waves in Complex Media
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, March 17-27, 1998
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Content
Localization of waves.- Mathematical theory of localization.- Localization of light in randomized periodic media.- Photonic band gap materials.- High-contrast photonic crystals.- Photon statistics of a random laser.- Spectra of large random matrices: a method of study.- Optics of ordered and disordered atomic media.- Cold atoms and multiple scattering.- Wave scattering from rough surfaces.- Acoustic pulses propagating in randomly layered media.- Reflection and transmission of acoustic waves by a locally-layered random slab.- Seismic wave diffusion in the earth lithosphere.- Imaging and averaging in complex media.- Subject index.