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Nice Days of Waves in Complex Media 2010

«Special session on Random Lasing»

The third workshop "Nice Days in Complex Media" will be held on June 7-9th 2010. This year, the workshop will be dedicated to Random Lasers. This new domain of laser physics has opened interesting avenues in both theoretical and experimental investigations of random active media. Since the seminal work of Lethokov in the sixties, random lasing has been observed and studied in many scattering systems from suspensions in dye solutions to semiconductor powders, from random fibers to biological tissues. Important theoretical questions have been raised during these last decade, as to the nature of the lasing modes in these mirrorless lasers. New directions have been recently initiated, for instance random lasing in cold atomic gases. Beyond the fundamental aspects, possible important applications start to emerge. Most of these developments both experimentally and theoretically, will be covered during this conference. Keeping close to the spirit of this workshop, each presentation will be followed by a substantial amount of time dedicated to discussions.

Patrick Sebbah - Robin Kaiser

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• Jonathan ANDREASEN
  (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, USA & LPMC, CNRS, Nice, France)
  Simulations of the Transition from ASE to Lasing Action in Weakly Scattering Random Structures
• Hui CAO
  (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, USA)
  Demonstration of lasing in two-dimensional deterministic aperiodic nanostructures
• Rémi CARMINATI
  (Institut Langevin, ESPCI, Paris, France)
  Spontaneous decay rate statistics in disordered media
• Claudio CONTI
  (CNR-ISC, University Sapienza, Roma, Italy)
  Complexity in Random Lasers
• Christophe COUTEAU
  (LNIO, UTT, Troyes, France)
  Random lasing in high quality ZnO thin films
• Arthur GOETSCHY
  (LPMMC, Grenoble, France)
  Quantum and semi-classical theories of random lasing in cold atomic gases
• Heinz KALT
  (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)
  Random lasing in nanocrystalline ZnO powders
• Hans KROHA
  (Univ. Bonn, Germany)
  Causality-induced effective lasing mode volume in homogeneously disordered random lasers
• Ad LAGENDIJK
  (FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics AMOLF, The Netherlands)
  coming soon
• Mélanie LEBENTAL
  (LPQM, Cachan, France)
  Solid-state organic lasers with or without cavities
• Cefe LOPEZ
  (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
  Lasing in Self-assembled Photonic Crystals and Glasses
• Nicolas MERCADIER
  (INLN, Nice, France)
  Progress towards a Random Laser with cold atoms
• Randy POLSON
  (University of Utah, Salt Lake City)
  Random lasing from random microcavities
• Patrick SEBBAH
  (LPMC, Nice, France)
  Random Lasing Modes
• Boris SHAPIRO
  (Physics Department, Technion, Haïfa, Israël)
  Localized photonic modes in a planar microcavity
• Sergey SKIPETROV
  (LPMMC, Grenoble, France)
  Quantum optics of random media
• Hakan TURECI
  (Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich)
  Quantum and nonlinear optics in complex photonic media
• Sergei K. TURITSYN
  (Photonics Research Group, Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
  Random Distributed Feedback Fibre Lasers
• Diederik WIERSMA
  (LENS, Florence)
  coming soon
• Oleg ZAITSEV
  (Univ. Bonn, Gerrmany)
  Semiclassical theories of random and chaotic lasers