What do lotus flowers have in common with human bones, liquid crystals with colloidal
suspensions, and white beetles with the beautiful stones of the Taj Mahal? The answer is …

Anderson's groundbreaking discovery that the presence of stochastic imperfections in a
crystal may result in a sudden breakdown of conductivity revolutionized our understanding …

A laser is not necessarily a sophisticated device: pum** an amplifying medium randomly
filled with scatterers makes a perfectly viable 'random laser'. The absence of mirrors greatly …

The development of nanoscale optical devices for classical and quantum photonics,,,, is
affected by unavoidable fabrication imperfections that often impose performance limitations …

Light in biological media is known as freely diffusing because interference is negligible.
Here, we show Anderson light localization in quasi-two-dimensional protein nanostructures …

Traditional wave kinetics describes the slow evolution of systems with many degrees of
freedom to equilibrium via numerous weak non-linear interactions and fails for very …

Over the past decades extensive research has been carried out to study the lasing
characteristics of random media. Some unexpected phenomena of random lasing action …

The angular emission pattern of a random laser is typically very irregular and difficult to tune.
Here we show by detailed numerical calculations that one can overcome the lack of control …

A directional random laser mediated by transverse Anderson localization in a disordered
glass optical fiber is reported. Previous demonstrations of random lasers have found limited …

The application of random lasers has been restricted due to the absence of a well-defined
resonant cavity, as the lasing action mainly depends on multiple light scattering induced by …