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Photocount statistics for pump-noise-suppressed lasers

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Abstract

A laser with a Poissonian random pump, operated far above threshold, has Poissonian statistics both for the intracavity photon number and for extracavity photocounts. We analyze a pump-noise-suppressed laser using the positive P representation. When the pump noise is suppressed below a critical level, the intracavity photon-number distribution becomes sub-Poissonian.1,2 When the spontaneous decay of the upper lasing level is also eliminated, intracavity photon-number fluctuations can be diminished by a factor up to half. For counting times much shorter than the cavity decay time, the extracavity photocount statistics are essentially Poissonian, since cavity decay dominates. For counting times comparable with or larger than the cavity lifetime, the extracavity photocount statistics become sub-Poissonian. In the limit that intracavity photon-number fluctuations are diminished by one half, the extracavity photocount noise can be completely suppressed for counting times much longer than the cavity lifetime. The cavity mode occupies an incoherent superposition of two states 180° out of phase, both of which diffuse in phase. In the microlaser regime, quantum diffusion between these two states can result in 180° phase jumps, which are in addition to ordinary phase diffusion.

© 1991 Optical Society of America

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