Spectral properties of a micromaser: Atomic-beam statistics and the field correlation function

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 3603-3613

  Briegel, Hans Jürgen ^a,b,c,d   Englert, Berthold Georg ^a,b,c,d   Scully, Marlan O ^a,b,c,d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

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EID: 17544379814     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.3603     Document Type: Article

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