Abstract
We have measured the second-order correlation function of the cavity-QED microlaser output and observed a transition from photon bunching to antibunching with increasing average number of intracavity atoms. The observed correlation times and the transition from super- to sub-Poisson photon statistics can be well described by gain-loss feedback or enhanced-reduced restoring action against fluctuations in photon number in the context of a quantum microlaser theory and a photon rate equation picture. However, the theory predicts a degree of antibunching several times larger than that observed, which may indicate the inadequacy of its treatment of atomic velocity distributions.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 093603 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
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Choi, W., Lee, J. H., An, K., Fang-Yen, C., Dasari, R. R., & Feld, M. S. (2006). Observation of sub-poisson photon statistics in the cavity-QED microlaser. Physical review letters, 96(9), [093603]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.093603