Thermal, quantum anti-bunching and lasing thresholds from single emitters to macroscopic devices

Abstract

Starting from a fully quantized Hamiltonian for an ensemble of identical emitters coupled to the modes of an optical cavity, we determine analytically regimes of thermal, collective anti-bunching and laser emission that depend explicitly on the number of emitters. The lasing regime is reached for a number of emitters above a critical number (which depends on the light-matter coupling, detuning and the dissipation rates) via a universal transition from thermal emission to collective anti-bunching to lasing as the pump increases. Cases where the second order intensity correlation fails to predict laser action are also presented.

arXiv comment12 pages, 9 figures, Supplementary Material is found at the end of the main paper

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