Effect of cooperative atomic interactions on photon statistics in a single-mode laser
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 20 (6) , 2464-2469
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.20.2464
Abstract
The effect of cooperative atomic interactions on the photon statistics in a single-mode laser is studied on the basis of an equation of motion for the reduced-density operator of the field that was recently derived by Huang and Mandel. The corresponding antinormal ordering distribution function is shown to satisfy a Fokker-Planck equation. The steady-state solution of this equation is used to determine the photon-number distribution, the average intensity, and the intensity fluctuation.Keywords
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