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Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. A means of creating coherent light by either driving an atomic or molecular transition in an optical cavity or firing a beam of electrons through an undulator.
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Is it possible to make a laser by sending sunlight through an optical apparatus?
McGrew), one can still distinguish filtered sunlight from true laser light by using the 2nd-order autocorrelation function $g^2(τ)$.
For a laser: $g^2(0) = 1$. … For thermal light (e.g. sunlight): $g^2(0) = 2$
In words: While the temporal arrival time of laser photons is randomly distributed (poissonian distribution), thermal photons arrive in small bunches (Bose-Einstein …