Parametric amplification and squeezing of a mode-locked pulse train: a comparison of MgO:LiNbO3 with bulk periodically poled LiNbO3

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 043807-043801

  Daly, E M ^a   Ferguson, A I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MAGNESIA; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHOTODETECTORS; PUMPING (LASER); SHOT NOISE; VACUUM;

HOMODYNE DETECTOR; MODE LOCKED PULSE TRAIN; PARAMETRIC GAIN; PHOTOREFRACTIVE DAMAGE; QUASI PHASE MATCHING; VACUUM NOISE;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0034295629     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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