Photon distributions of lasers with first-order phase-transition analogies
- 1 November 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 20 (5), 2093-2104
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.20.2093
Abstract
The photon-number distributions for a laser with a saturable-absorber and a dye laser are obtained by extensions of the Scully and Lamb optical-maser theory. The results are shown to be in correspondence with those of Lugiato et al. for the saturable-absorber laser and with those of Schaefer and Willis for the dye laser. Moreover, they are in a form which clearly shows the relation between the saturable-absorber laser and the dye laser. The thermodynamic potentials for the first-order phase-transition analogy are calculated and are found to be of the form predicted by Scott, Sargent, and Cantrell using semiclassical equations.Keywords
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