Abstract
The high degree of temporal coherence of laser light arises from a complex interplay between the fundamental light-matter interactions of absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission. The coherence properties of the generated light can be altered significantly, and often in a surprising manner, by modifying the type of light-matter interaction on which the laser is based. As an example, the two-photon laser [1, 2] is based on the higher-order two-photon stimulated emission process, whereby two incident photons stimulate an excited atom to a lower energy state and four photons are scattered.
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Gauthier, D.J., Pfister, O., Brown, W.J., Stenner, M.D. (2003). Dynamics of a two-photon laser. 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_161
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