Abstract
Recently laser oscillation with an average number of atoms less than unity inside an optical reonator has been demonstrated [ 1 ]. Apart from taking place in the optical regime, the experiments differ from micromaser experiments in several ways: the atoms are injected with a thermal velocity distribution, the atoms arrive in the cavity with laser excited mean electric dipoles, and the lasing mode has a spatial dependence, TEM00, with a Gaussian transverse variation and several longitudinal field nodes over the intesection with the atomic beam.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Antti Pieliläinen, Hanne Ludvigsen, Hannu Talvilie, and Erkki Ikonen
QTuG5 European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC) 1996
H. J. Carmichael
QWD3 European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC) 1998
J. Sierks, T. Latz, V.M. Baev, and P.E. Toschck
QWB6 European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC) 1996