Optical hyperparametric oscillations in a whispering-gallery-mode resonator: Threshold and phase diffusion

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Matsko, Andrey B ^a   Savchenkov, Anatoliy A ^a   Strekalov, Dmitry ^a   Ilchenko, Vladimir S ^a   Maleki, Lute ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL HYPERPARAMETRIC OSCILLATIONS; PHASE DIFFUSION; RESONANT FREQUENCY CONVERSION; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATORS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATIONS; PHOTONS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 18444403452     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.033804     Document Type: Article

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