Photon statistics of a laser with slow inversion.
We have measured the photon number probability distribution of a laser in which the inversion is not slaved to the field. For the experiments, we have used a Nd(3+):YVO(4) laser which has a sufficiently slow inversion to allow measurement of the photon fluctuations at a time scale much shorter than that of the relaxation oscillations. The photon distribution function becomes highly nonstandard (i.e., non-Poissonian) in such a laser; this is consistent with available theoretical work. We point out the relevance of our results for the case of the semiconductor microlaser.
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Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
de Vries
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van Druten
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van Exter
M P
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Woerdman
J P
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