Disordered, Strongly Scattering Porous Materials as Miniature Multipass Gas Cells
We investigate the interaction of light and gas in strongly scattering nano- and macroporous media. Manufacturing and structural characterization of ZrO2, Al2O3 and TiO2 ceramics with different pore sizes, measurements of optical properties using photon time-of-flight spectroscopy, and high-resolution laser spectroscopy of O-2 at 760 nm are reported. We show that extreme light scattering can be ut