Low-threshold optical parametric oscillations in a whispering gallery mode resonator

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 26, 2010, Pages

  Furst J U ^a,b   Strekalov, D V ^a,c   Elser, D ^a,b   Aiello, A ^a,b   Andersen, U L ^a,d   Marquardt, Ch ^a,b   Leuchs, G ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED SURFACES; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; LOW THRESHOLDS; MODE VOLUME; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATIONS; PARAMETRIC DOWNCONVERSION; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATIONS; PHASE-MATCHING CONDITION; SINGLE MODE; SUM RULE; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATOR;

LIGHT REFLECTION; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONATORS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 78650622406     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.263904     Document Type: Article

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