Coherent states of a free electron laser
Abstract
We define electron-field coherent quasi-classical states of a free electron laser. In these states both the photon number and the electron momentum are given by a Poisson distribution centered on the classical trajectories.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- March 1980
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1980OptCo..32..440B
- Keywords:
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- Coherent Light;
- Free Electron Lasers;
- Laser Modes;
- Photons;
- Angular Momentum;
- Classical Mechanics;
- Hamiltonian Functions;
- Harmonic Oscillators;
- Poisson Density Functions;
- Quantum Theory;
- Lasers and Masers