Abstract
Exact results for the photon statistics of a two-photon micromaser are presented, including the effect of finite detuning of the intermediate level. A periodic dependence on interaction times is shown to arise for large detunings, when sufficiently long interaction times are considered. Some typical photon-number distributions are shown, including some exhibiting sub-Poissonian fluctuations and multiple peaks. Previous treatments and the validity of some usual approximations are discussed. By direct comparison with the exact results, it is shown that the effective-Hamiltonian approximation yields incorrect equations for the off-diagonal elements of the field density matrix.
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