Abstract
In an important 1979 paper,1 Petermann pointed out that in certain laser-resonator geometries a typical mode may exhibit more noise than expected on the basis of the standard quantum-mechanical one-photon-per-mode prescription. It was subsequently shown by other authors (e.g., Ref. 2) that this arises because the self-reproducing field patterns that are commonly referred to as laser "modes" are not true modes of the radiation field.
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