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Optics Communications

Volume 38, Issue 4, 15 August 1981, Pages 309-313
Optics Communications

Quantum fluctuations of a multi-mode laser oscillator

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Abstract

We have observed fluctuations in the output of individual modes of a multi-mode laser with homogeneously broadened gain weakly coupling these modes. Magnitude and distribution of the fluctuations are compared with results of current statistical models of a multi-mode laser.

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1

On leave from Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, USSR.

2

Present address: Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Köningstuhl.

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