THEORY OF THE 2-PHOTON MICROMASER - PHOTON STATISTICS

被引:45
作者
ASHRAF, I
GEABANACLOCHE, J
ZUBAIRY, MS
机构
[1] Department of Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1990年 / 42卷 / 11期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.42.6704
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Exact results for the photon statistics of a two-photon micromaser are presented, including the effect of finite detuning of the intermediate level. A periodic dependence on interaction times is shown to arise for large detunings, when sufficiently long interaction times are considered. Some typical photon-number distributions are shown, including some exhibiting sub-Poissonian fluctuations and multiple peaks. Previous treatments and the validity of some usual approximations are discussed. By direct comparison with the exact results, it is shown that the effective-Hamiltonian approximation yields incorrect equations for the off-diagonal elements of the field density matrix. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:6704 / 6712
页数:9
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