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The reduced density matrix method is used to calculate the quantum-statistical properties of the radiation of a quantum-dot laser operating on the whispering gallery mode of a dielectric microsphere. It is shown that under the conditions of strong coupling between the quantum dot and an electromagnetic field the radiation of such a laser can be in a nonclassical (sub-Poissonian) state. The laser scheme considered is characterized by an extremely low lasing threshold and a small number of saturation photons, as result of which lasing is possible with close to zero population inversion of the working levels, if g ≫ P ≫ γ ≫ Γ, where g is the field-matter interaction constant, P is the pumping rate, γ is the loss rate of the resonator, and Γ is the spontaneous emission rate. The largest squeezing inside the resonator-microsphere (the Fano factor F = 0.75) obtains for g ≫ P ≫ γ ≫ Γ, and the greatest squeezing in the fluctuation spectrum outside the resonator [V(ω = 0) ≈ 0.25] occurs for g ∼ P ∼ γ ≫ Γ, and in this case a substantial deviation of the photon number statistics of the radiation leaving the resonator from the Poissonian statistics is observed.
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Translated from Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) Fiziki, Vol. 118, No. 5, 2000, pp. 1084–1091.
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Kozlovsky, A.V., Oraevsky, A.N. Quantum-dot microlaser operating on the whispering gallery mode—A source of squeezed (sub-Poissonian) light. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 91, 938–944 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1334983
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