Cascading amplifiers can create exponentially large coherence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28716v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:00:00 GMT
• Title: Cascading amplifiers can create exponentially large coherence
• Abstract summary: A standard laser beam has photon degeneracy, $mathfrakC$, of at most $82$, where $$ is the number of photons in the laser itself.<n>We propose a different path to increasing $mathfrakC$: cascaded linear amplifiers, with conventional couplings.<n>By dropping the requirement on the beam's properties, this approach can, in theory, achieve $mathfrakC$ scaling exponentially in $$.
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• Abstract: A standard laser beam has photon degeneracy, or coherence, $\mathfrak{C}$, of at most $8μ^2$, where $μ$ is the number of photons in the laser itself. Even quantum-engineered lasers, if required to produce a beam with the standard statistical properties, have limited coherence, scaling as $μ^4$. Moreover, such lasers (still unrealised) require very unconventional gain and output-coupling mechanisms. Here, we propose a different path to increasing $\mathfrak{C}$: cascaded linear amplifiers, with conventional couplings. By dropping the requirement on the beam's properties, this approach can, in theory, achieve $\mathfrak{C}$ scaling exponentially in $μ$. Here $μ$ is the total source excitation number, across all the amplifiers. Two amplifiers suffice to surpass the standard $μ^2$ scaling.

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