Marandi, Alireza and Leindecker, Nick C. and Pervak, Vladimir and Byer, Robert L. and Vodopyanov, Konstantin L. (2012) Coherence properties of a broadband femtosecond mid-IR optical parametric oscillator operating at degeneracy. Optics Express, 20 (7). pp. 7255-7262. ISSN 1094-4087. doi:10.1364/OE.20.007255. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180608-145500419
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Abstract
We study coherence properties of a χ^(2) optical parametric oscillator (OPO), which produces 2/3-octave-wide spectrum centered at the subharmonic (3120 nm) of the femtosecond pump laser. Our method consists of interfering the outputs of two identical, but independent OPOs pumped by the same laser. We demonstrate that the two OPOs show stable spatial and temporal interference and are mutually locked in frequency and in phase. By observing a collective heterodyne beat signal between the two OPOs we show that one can deterministically choose, by cavity length adjustment, between the two frequency states corresponding to the two sets of modes shifted with respect to each other by half of the laser pulse repetition rate. Moreover, we observe that the existence of two opposite phase states, a known common feature of a parametrically driven n = 2 subharmonic oscillator, reveals itself in our experiment as a common phase, 0 or π, being established through the whole set of some 300 thousand longitudinal modes.
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Additional Information: | © 2012 Optical Society of America. Received 2 Feb 2012; revised 5 Mar 2012; accepted 5 Mar 2012; published 14 Mar 2012. We greatly acknowledge the support by NASA, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Agilent, and Stanford Medical School. V. Pervak thanks for support the German Research Foundation Cluster of Excellence “Munich Centre for Advanced Photonics”. | ||||||||||||||
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Issue or Number: | 7 | ||||||||||||||
Classification Code: | OCIS codes: (190.4975) Parametric processes; (190.4410) Nonlinear optics, parametric processes | ||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1364/OE.20.007255 | ||||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Alireza Marandi, Nick C. Leindecker, Vladimir Pervak, Robert L. Byer, and Konstantin L. Vodopyanov, "Coherence properties of a broadband femtosecond mid-IR optical parametric oscillator operating at degeneracy," Opt. Express 20, 7255-7262 (2012) | ||||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | George Porter | ||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 08 Jun 2018 22:55 | ||||||||||||||
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