Laser with large photon correlation times
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 35 (6) , 2523-2531
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.35.2523
Abstract
Laser light is known to have a very small field linewidth (proportional to the inverse pump rate, far above threshold), while the photon intensity correlation decays quickly (intensity linewidth proportional to the pump rate). Here we study the polarization-symmetric laser as a device to provide a small photon linewidth, proportional to the inverse pump rate. The physical explanation is discussed, and the behavior throughout the whole nonlinear threshold range is reported.Keywords
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