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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 30: Quanteneffekte
Q 30.8: Talk
Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 15:45–16:00, V7.03
Photon Statistics in the Quantum Free-Electron Laser — •Paul Preiss1,2, Rainer Endrich2, Enno Giese2, Roland Sauerbrey1, Wolfgang P. Schleich2, and Suhail Zubairy3 — 1Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf, D-01328 Dresden — 2Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm, D-89069 Ulm — 3Institute for Quantum Studies, Texas A&M University
The free-electron laser (FEL) is an alternative laser device with a widely tunable wavelength of the emitted radiation. Usually, FEL's operate in the so-called classical regime where quantum effects can be neglected. Recent developments in accelerator and laser physics permit the realization of a FEL in the quantum regime. We discuss the effects emerging in a quantum FEL and compare the photon statistics to the one in an atomic laser.