Superthermal light emission and nontrivial photon statistics in small lasers
Optics
2020-07-01 v2
Abstract
Photon statistical measurements on a semiconductor microlaser, obtained using single-photon counting techniques, show that a newly discovered spontaneous pulsed emission regime possesses superthermal statistical properties. The observed spike dynamics, typical of small-scale devices, is at the origin of an unexpected discordance between the probability density function and its representation in terms of the first moments, a discordance so far unnoticed in all devices. The impact of this new dynamics is potentially large, since coincidence techniques are presently the sole capable of characterizing light emitted by nanolasers.
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@article{arxiv.1710.02052,
title = {Superthermal light emission and nontrivial photon statistics in small lasers},
author = {T. Wang and D. Aktas and O. Alibart and É. Picholle and G. P. Puccioni and S. Tanzilli and G. L. Lippi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.02052},
year = {2020}
}
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11 pages, 8 figures