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We show how by varying the speed of an atomic beam crossing a high-Q cavity, a regime with a well-defined laser threshold is replaced by another where the photon statistics is always Poissonian.
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Dutra, S.M., Visser, J., Nienhuis, G., Woerdman, J.P. (2003). From the ordinary threshold regime to ideal thresholdless lasing. In: Bigelow, N.P., Eberly, J.H., Stroud, C.R., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8907-9_105
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