Dynamic noise reduction in multilevel lasers: Nonlinear theory and the pump-operator approach

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 1143-1159

  Briegel, Hans Jürgen ^a,b,c,d   Meyer, Georg M ^a,b,c,d   Englert, Berthold Georg ^a,b,c,d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; DAMPING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHOTONS; POLYNOMIALS; PUMPING (LASER);

ATOMIC EXCITATION; ATOMIC INJECTION LASER; DENSITY MATRIX; FANO FACTOR; INTENSITY NOISE REDUCTION; MULTILEVEL LASERS; PHOTON NUMBER;

LASER THEORY;

EID: 0030081910     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.1143     Document Type: Article

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