The probability distributions of intensity for thermal and ideal laser beams are derived directly from the Bose-Einstein distribution for photons in phase space, using the correspondence principle. Thus the approach of Kastler is shown to yield the same result for the intensity distribution for an ideal laser as the work of Mandel.
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G. J. Troup (1965) studied this question.
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