Münster 1999 – scientific programme

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DY: Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 40: Unordnung im Nichtgleichgewicht

DY 40.1: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 25, 1999, 09:30–10:00, R4

Random Lasers — •C.W.J. Beenakker — Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden

A random laser differs from a conventional laser in that the feedback is provided by multiple scattering from disorder rather than by confinement from mirrors. The statistical properties of the radiation are strikingly different because the scattering is chaotic (in contrast to integrable scattering in a conventional laser). An overview is presented of this new field at the border of statistical physics and quantum optics.