Excitation of localized modes and mechanism of random lasing forming in random media

Abstract

Laser phenomena in random media have been studied based on the localized theory for lightwave in random media. The relationship between random lasing modes and localized modes has been investigated by directly solving Maxwell equations numerically via the finite difference time domain method. The spatial distribution and the spectra of localized modes are obtained for both passive and active random media. The results show that random lasing modes directly originate from the localized modes inside the random medium. In the presence of gain, any one of the localized modes can be amplified and can serve as random lasing mode.