Tunable optical parametric generator based on the pump spatial walk-off
Abstract
We suggest a novel optical parametric generator (OPG) in which one of the down-converted beams is spontaneously generated along the Poynting vector of the pump beam. In this configuration, the generation takes advantage of the walk-off of the extraordinary pump rather than being degraded by it. As a result the generated beams, signal and idler, are bright, due to a high conversion efficiency, spatially nearly single-mode, due to the preferred direction of the Poynting vector, tuneable over a wide range of wavelengths, and broadband. The two beams are also correlated in frequency and in the photon number per pulse. Furthermore due to their thermal statistics these beams can be used as a pump to efficiently generate other nonlinear processes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1511.02781,
title = {Tunable optical parametric generator based on the pump spatial walk-off},
author = {Andrea Cavanna and Felix Just and Polina R. Sharapova and Michael Taheri and Gerd Leuchs and Maria V. Chekhova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.02781},
year = {2016}
}