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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Pump statistics in the micromaser: numerical studies and the approach to equilibrium

János A. Bergou, Mark S. Hillery

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a detailed numerical study of the influence of arrival times’ statistics of active atoms on the photon statistics of a micromaser.
DOI
10.1364/oam.1993.faa.2

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