Quantum noise properties of the laser: Depleted pump regime
Darlene L. Hart, T. A. B. Kennedy · Physical Review A · 1991
We show that a laser may generate amplitude-squeezed or antibunched light in a regime well above threshold, where depletion of the ground state by incoherent pumping is significant. Simple analytical solutions are presented to illustrate which atomic-level schemes and pumping rates are optimal.