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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 86, Issue 13, Pages 2786-2789Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2786
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We have measured the photon number probability distribution of a laser in which the inversion is not slaved to the field. For the experiments, we have used a Nd3+:YVO4 laser which has a sufficiently slow inversion to allow measurement of the photon fluctuations at a time scale much shorter than that of the relaxation oscillations. The photon distribution function becomes highly nonstandard (i.e., non-Poissonian) in such a laser; this is consistent with available theoretical work. We point out the relevance of our results for the case of the semiconductor microlaser.
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