Squeezing in a Rydberg Atom Maser
- 28 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (4) , 326-328
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.54.326
Abstract
We show theoretically that a Rydberg atom maser produces during its evolution a squeezed field with sub-Poissonian statistics. We give a semiclassical interpretation of this effect.Keywords
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