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In this chapter, we study the Laser Theory using the Langevin Approach. We include the influence of pump statistics.
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.
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Orszag, M. (2016). Quantum Laser Theory: Langevin Approach. In: Quantum Optics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29037-9_12
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