From radamson@physics.utoronto.ca Fri Nov 15 09:46:24 2002 Return-Path: Received: from tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts19.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.73]) by helios.physics.utoronto.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA6355934 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:46:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from physics.utoronto.ca ([65.95.126.98]) by tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021115144601.LPR27245.tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net@physics.utoronto.ca> for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:46:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3DD508AB.2040600@physics.utoronto.ca> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:46:03 -0500 From: Rob Adamson Reply-To: radamson@physics.utoronto.ca Organization: U of T Physics Dept. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aephraim@physics.utoronto.ca Subject: Quantum Optics seminar topic Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: R Hi, I think I'm going to do my seminar on random lasers. I can report experimental results and possible applications pretty easily, but I'm going to have to wade through some theory papers to make sure that the theory is simple enough that I can understand it. From what I understand you can model the light path as a random walk, so I don't anticipate that it should be too complicated. I'll talk about loss mechanisms calculation of the path length and the lasing condition. Rob