The spectral linewidth of laser noise and of fluctuations near other second-order phase transitions

Authors :: E R Pike
E Jakeman
Source :: Journal of Physics A: General Physics. 4:L56-L57
Publication Year :: 1971
Publisher :: IOP Publishing, 1971.
Abstract: A simple, exact analytic expression is derived for the effective spectral linewidth of laser intensity fluctuations as a function of output power. Relevance of the work to the general theory of second-order phase transitions is pointed out.

Subjects :: Physics
Quantum phase transition
Work (thermodynamics)
Phase transition
Laser linewidth
Laser noise
Condensed matter physics
Order (ring theory)
Function (mathematics)
Atomic physics
Power (physics)

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