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A steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon

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  • Justin G. Bohnet

    (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, University of Colorado, 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA)

  • Zilong Chen

    (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, University of Colorado, 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA)

  • Joshua M. Weiner

    (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, University of Colorado, 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA)

  • Dominic Meiser

    (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, University of Colorado, 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
    Present address: Tech-X Corporation, 5621 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite A, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA.)

  • Murray J. Holland

    (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, University of Colorado, 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA)

  • James K. Thompson

    (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, University of Colorado, 440 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA)

Abstract

A superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon is shown to synchronize its lasing medium spontaneously and simultaneously isolate it from the environment, producing emitted light with a linewidth ten thousand times smaller than the quantum limit for non-superradiant optical lasers.

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  • Justin G. Bohnet & Zilong Chen & Joshua M. Weiner & Dominic Meiser & Murray J. Holland & James K. Thompson, 2012. "A steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon," Nature, Nature, vol. 484(7392), pages 78-81, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:484:y:2012:i:7392:d:10.1038_nature10920
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10920
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    1. Stuart J. Masson & Ana Asenjo-Garcia, 2022. "Universality of Dicke superradiance in arrays of quantum emitters," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-7, December.
    2. Dmitry Lapkin & Christopher Kirsch & Jonas Hiller & Denis Andrienko & Dameli Assalauova & Kai Braun & Jerome Carnis & Young Yong Kim & Mukunda Mandal & Andre Maier & Alfred J. Meixner & Nastasia Mukha, 2022. "Spatially resolved fluorescence of caesium lead halide perovskite supercrystals reveals quasi-atomic behavior of nanocrystals," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-10, December.
    3. Eliot A. Bohr & Sofus L. Kristensen & Christoph Hotter & Stefan A. Schäffer & Julian Robinson-Tait & Jan W. Thomsen & Tanya Zelevinsky & Helmut Ritsch & Jörg H. Müller, 2024. "Collectively enhanced Ramsey readout by cavity sub- to superradiant transition," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-7, December.
    4. Cheng, Shujie & Xu, He-Guang & Liu, Xueying & Xianlong, Gao, 2022. "Quantum criticality driven by the cavity coupling in the Rabi-dimer model," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 604(C).

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