Laser with thresholdless intensity fluctuations

Authors
  • M.P. van Exter
  • J.P. Woerdman
Publication date 2000
Journal Physical Review A
Volume | Issue number 62 | 5
Pages (from-to) 1-9
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute (WZI)
Abstract We have studied the quantum-noise properties of a small slow-inversion laser experimentally and theoretically. As a function of pump rate, the average output intensity shows a sharp threshold, but the intensity fluctuations do not. Under quite generic conditions the intensity fluctuations of a sufficiently small slow-inversion laser show highly super-Poissonian statistics (even two times above threshold), due to the very weak damping of the spontaneous-emission-driven relaxation oscillation.
Document type Article
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