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In the previous chapter, we studied the influence of the pump statistics on the amplitude and phase fluctuations of the laser radiation, making use of the master equation approach. We thus derived a generalized master equation in terms of a parameter p that represented the probability for an atom to be excited to the upper level, before entering into the cavity. The two extreme cases were p → 0 (Poisson statistics) and p → 1 (regular statistics). What we found was that the pump statistics had no influence on the phase fluctuations or linewidth, but had a strong influence on the photon number fluctuations.
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Orszag, M. (2000). Quantum Laser Theory. Langevin Approach. In: Quantum Optics. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04114-7_12
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