Abstract

An important event occurring recently in quantum optics is the invention of the mi-cromaser,¹ which makes it possible to test some purely quantum mechanical phenomena predicted by theoreticians. A number of theoretical investigations² on the micromaser have been made. Among them, the first micromaser theory was presented by Filipowicz et al. (FJM).³ They predicted that the photon statistical distribution could be sub-Poissonian in such a device.

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