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We review the theory of a maser (or a laser) in which a probability distribution for the atomic pump is introduced. Photon number noise reduction is possible for a regular pump statistics. We discuss the photon noise in a particular case, namely, the two photon micromaser
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Orszag, M., Retamal, J.C. (1991). Photon Noise Reduction in Light Sources. In: Tirapegui, E., Zeller, W. (eds) Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures III. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3442-2_17
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