This paper is Chapter 1 of the book “Light Localisation and Lasing: Random and Pseudorandom Photonic Structures”, edited by Mher Ghulinyanand Lorenzo Pavesi (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015).
The chapter provides a general introduction to the field, notably, a general "photonic strength" that characterizes *any* nanophotonic medium and that is connected to essential characteristic length scales such as the mean free path or the Bragg length.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06808

W. L. Vos, A. P. Mosk, and A. Lagendijk

2015

01/2015

Light Localisation and Lasing: Random and Quasi-Random Photonic Structures (Eds. M. Ghulinyan, L. Pavesi)

1-12

Cambridge University Press

band gaps, complex media, lasing, localization, photonic crystals, quasicrystals, random media, Wavefront shaping