Effect of saturated absorption on sub-Poissonian lasing

Abstract

This paper discusses the effect of saturated absorption on the quantum features of a sub-Poissonian laser. It is shown that when both media (laser and absorbing) are saturated, the appearance of an additional element in the cavity does not lead to the demolition of the quantum properties (regular statistics of photons and quadrature squeezing) of laser radiation.

8 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Laser Physics Letters