Abstract
A new technique is described to characterize fluctuations in lasers through an application of the concept of first passage time (FPT) distributions. The basic question addressed is the following: if we allow the laser radiation to develop from a spontaneous emission background, what is the distribution of times for the intensity to reach a certain prescribed value (lref)?
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