Quantum-statistical properties of an FEL amplifier. Technical report No. 35, 1 October 1984-30 September 1985

Technical Report · Mon Sep 30 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6945094

Dattoli, G; Gallardo, J; Renieri, A; Richetta, M

We discuss the problem of photon quantum statistics of a single particle Free Electron Laser (FEL) amplifier in the small-signal cold beam regime to first order in the electron quantum recoil. The initial radiation wave is an arbitrary coherent state. We show that Glauber coherence is not preserved by the FEL interaction if the initial coherent state is not the vacuum even if we neglect the electron quantum recoil (absence of gain). We evaluate the first two moments of the final photon distribution and find sub (super)-poissonian photo statistics for negative (positive) resonance parameter.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA (USA). Quantum Inst.
• OSTI ID: 6945094
• Report Number(s): AD-A-221733/9/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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