R. Bonifacio, CLASSICAL BUNCHING CONTRIBUTION IN THE PHOTON STATISTICS OF A HIGH-GAIN FEL, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 400(1), 1997, pp. 165-169
In a previous paper we have calculated quantum mechanically the photon
statistics of a high-gain FEL in the exponential SASE regime started
only by the quantum fluctuations. In this paper we extend the previous
calculation to include the effect of a properly defined ''classical b
unching'' and the presence of many coherence lengths in the electron b
unch. The new concept of Quantum SASE is defined.