Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Many-body effects in a quantum free-electron laser model

E. Fernandez, Miguel Orszag

Published Apr 1, 1987• 4 citations

Abstract

We study N-body effects on the coherence properties of the light emitted spontaneously by a free-electron laser working in the Compton regime. In particular, antibunching, present in a one-electron model, disappears as soon as one introduces more than one electron into the model. We also study quantum versus classical (shot) noise.

DOI: 10.1364/josab.4.000512

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