Title :
Lévy exponents at critical excitation of nanostructured random amplifying media
Author :
Uppu, Ravitej ; Mujumdar, S.
Author_Institution :
Nano-Opt. & Mesoscopic Opt. Lab., Tata Inst. of Fundamental Res., Mumbai, India
Abstract :
We study Lévy statistics at the critical excitation of a nanophotonic, random amplifying system. We observe sub-unity exponents for weak scattering systems that are sensitive to pump fluctuations, in contrast to strong scattering systems.
Keywords :
amplification; light scattering; nanophotonics; nanostructured materials; optical pumping; random media; Levy exponents; Levy statistics; critical excitation; nanophotonics; nanostructured random amplifying media; pump fluctuations; subunity exponents; weak scattering systems;
Conference_Titel :
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4718-1
