Difference-frequency generation with quantum-limited efficiency in triply-resonant nonlinear cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 9241-9251

  Burgess, Ian B ^a   Rodriguez, Alejandro W ^b   McCutcheon, Murray W ^a   Bravo Abad, Jorge ^b   Zhang, Yinan ^a,b   Johnson, Steven G ^b   Lončar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED MODE THEORY; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; NONLINEAR CAVITIES; PARAMETER RANGE; QUANTUM LIMITED; SECOND ORDERS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TRIPLY-RESONANT CAVITY;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 66449100330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009241     Document Type: Article

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