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Fragemann, Anna. "Optical parametric amplification with periodically poled KTiOPO4." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Laserfysik, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-531.
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This thesis explores the use of engineered nonlinear crystals from the KTiOPO4 (KTP) family as the gain material in optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs), with the aim to achieve more knowledge about the benefits and limitations of these devices. The work aims further at extending the possible applications of OPAs by constructing and investigating several efficient and well performing amplifiers. An OPA consists of a strong pump source, which transfers its energy to a weak seed beam while propagating through a nonlinear crystal. The crystals employed in this work are members of the KTP family, which are attractive due to their large nonlinear coefficients, high resistance to damage and wide transparency range. The flexibility of OPAs with respect to different wavelength regions and pulse regimes was examined by employing various dissimilar seed and pump sources. The possibility to adapt an OPA to a specific pump and seed wavelength and achieve efficient energy conversion between the beams, originates from quasi-phasematching, which is achieved in periodically poled (PP) nonlinear crystals. Quasi-phasematched samples can be obtained by changing the position of certain atoms in a ferroelectric crystal and thereby reversing the spontaneous polarisation. In this thesis several material properties of PP crystals from the KTP family were examined. The wavelength and temperature dispersion of the refractive index were determined for PP RbTiOPO4, which is essential for future use of this material. Another experiment helped to increase the insight into the volumes close to domain walls in PP crystals Further, several OPAs were built and their ability to efficiently amplify the seed beam without changing its spectral or spatial properties was studied. Small signal gains of up to 55 dB and conversion efficiencies of more than 35 % were achieved for single pass arrangements employing 8 mm long PPKTP crystals. Apart from constructing three setups, which generated powerful nanosecond, picosecond and femtosecond pulses, the possibility to amplify broadband signals was investigated. An increase of the OPA bandwidth by a factor of approximately three was achieved in a noncollinear configuration.QC 20101013
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Fragemann, Anna. "Optical parametric amplification with periodically poled KTiOPO4." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Physics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-531.
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This thesis explores the use of engineered nonlinear crystals from the KTiOPO4 (KTP) family as the gain material in optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs), with the aim to achieve more knowledge about the benefits and limitations of these devices. The work aims further at extending the possible applications of OPAs by constructing and investigating several efficient and well performing amplifiers.
An OPA consists of a strong pump source, which transfers its energy to a weak seed beam while propagating through a nonlinear crystal. The crystals employed in this work are members of the KTP family, which are attractive due to their large nonlinear coefficients, high resistance to damage and wide transparency range. The flexibility of OPAs with respect to different wavelength regions and pulse regimes was examined by employing various dissimilar seed and pump sources.
The possibility to adapt an OPA to a specific pump and seed wavelength and achieve efficient energy conversion between the beams, originates from quasi-phasematching, which is achieved in periodically poled (PP) nonlinear crystals. Quasi-phasematched samples can be obtained by changing the position of certain atoms in a ferroelectric crystal and thereby reversing the spontaneous polarisation.
In this thesis several material properties of PP crystals from the KTP family were examined. The wavelength and temperature dispersion of the refractive index were determined for PP RbTiOPO4, which is essential for future use of this material. Another experiment helped to increase the insight into the volumes close to domain walls in PP crystals
Further, several OPAs were built and their ability to efficiently amplify the seed beam without changing its spectral or spatial properties was studied. Small signal gains of up to 55 dB and conversion efficiencies of more than 35 % were achieved for single pass arrangements employing 8 mm long PPKTP crystals. Apart from constructing three setups, which generated powerful nanosecond, picosecond and femtosecond pulses, the possibility to amplify broadband signals was investigated. An increase of the OPA bandwidth by a factor of approximately three was achieved in a noncollinear configuration.
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Lewandowski, Przemyslaw, Samuel M. H. Luk, Chris K. P. Chan, P. T. Leung, N. H. Kwong, Rolf Binder, and Stefan Schumacher. "Directional optical switching and transistor functionality using optical parametric oscillation in a spinor polariton fluid." OPTICAL SOC AMER, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626462.
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Over the past decade, spontaneously emerging patterns in the density of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities were found to be a promising candidate for all-optical switching. But recent approaches were mostly restricted to scalar fields, did not benefit from the polariton's unique spin-dependent properties, and utilized switching based on hexagon far-field patterns with 60 degrees beam switching (i.e. in the far field the beam propagation direction is switched by 60 degrees). Since hexagon far-field patterns are challenging, we present here an approach for a linearly polarized spinor field that allows for a transistor-like (e.g., crucial for cascadability) orthogonal beam switching, i.e. in the far field the beam is switched by 90 degrees. We show that switching specifications such as amplification and speed can be adjusted using only optical means. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
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Guy, Andrew. "Synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillation in barium borate and potassium titanyl phosphate." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1990. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/404356/.
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The synchronously pumped parametric oscillator is potentially a widely tunable source of picosecond optical radiation. The aim of this project was to assess whether continuous operation of such a device would be possible with the nonlinear materials and laser sources available at the time. Singly resonant operation, though it would result in a higher threshold, was felt to be a necessary prerequisite for the stable operation of the parametric oscillator required for it to become a viable research tool. To assess the feasibility of continuous operation, three synchronously pumped parametric oscillators were investigated. The first utilised the nonlinear medium barium borate and, as a pump source, a frequency-doubled, amplified, Q-switched, and mode-locked Nd:YAG laser. In this case a peak power, of the most energetic pulse in the Q-switched train, of ~3.5MW was required; a value several orders of magnitude higher than available from a c.w. pumped mode-locked Nd:YAG laser, as would be required to continuously pump a parametric oscillator. The threshold was lowered by around a factor of four by simply replacing the barium borate crystal with one of potassium titanyl phosphate, taking advantage of the higher nonlinearity offered by this material. The last stage of the investigation was carried out utilising a frequency doubled, amplified, mode-locked pump source to provide a long train of pulses. Using a tight focusing geometry, as allowed by the quasi-noncritical phase-matching offered by KTP for near degenerate operation, the intensity threshold was reduced by nearly three orders of magnitude to ~2.2kW. Extrapolation of this result to estimate what level of power would be required from a c.w. mode-locked Nd:YAG laser pump indicated powers in excess of those available from conventional sources, but achievable through the exploitation of pulse compression. A preliminary investigation of compression was therefore performed. While the necessary power levels were achieved, the unstable behaviour of the laser output power - resulting from unavoidable feedback - posed too great a risk of damage to the nonlinear crystal, and an experimental demonstration of optical parametric oscillation pumped by these short pulses was therefore not attempted. The final conclusion of this project was that parametric oscillation threshold should now be achievable with a c.w. diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser, using the short pulse output generated via the recently introduced technique of additive mode-locking.
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Lam, Ping Koy, and Ping Lam@anu edu au. "Applications of Quantum Electro-Optic Control and Squeezed Light." The Australian National University. Faculty of Science, 1999. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20030611.170800.
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In this thesis, we report the observations of optical squeezing from second harmonic generation (SHG), optical parametric oscillation (OPO) and optical parametric amplification (OPA). Demonstrations and proposals of applications involving the squeezed light and electro-optic control loops are presented.
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In our SHG setup, we report the observation of 2.1 dB of intensity squeezing on the second harmonic (SH) output. Investigations into the system show that the squeezing performance of a SHG system is critically affected by the pump noise and a modular theory of noise propagation is developed to describe and quantify this effect. Our experimental data has also shown that in a low-loss SHG system, intra-cavity nondegenerate OPO modes can simultaneously occur. This competition of nonlinear processes leads to the optical clamping of the SH output power and in general can degrade the SH squeezing. We model this competition and show that it imposes a limit to the observable SH squeezing. Proposals for minimizing the effect of competition are presented.
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In our OPO setup, we report the observation of 7.1 dB of vacuum squeezing and more than 4 dB of intensity squeezing when the OPO is operating as a parametric amplifier. We present the design criteria and discuss the limits to the observable squeezing from the OPO.We attribute the large amount of squeezing obtained in our experiment to the high escape efficiency of the OPO. The effect of phase jitter on the squeezing of the vacuum state is modeled.
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The quantum noise performance of an electro-optic feedforward control loop is investigated. With classical coherent inputs, we demonstrate that vacuum fluctuations introduced at the beam splitter of the control loop can be completely cancelled by an optimum amount of positive feedforward. The cancellation of vacuum fluctuations leads to the possibility of noiseless signal amplification with the feedforward loop. Comparison shows that the feedforward amplifier is superior or at least comparable in performance with other noiseless amplification schemes. When combined with an injection-locked non-planar ring Nd:YAG laser, we demonstrate that signal and power amplifications can both be noiseless and independently variable.
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Using squeezed inputs to the feedforward control loop, we demonstrate that information carrying squeezed states can be made robust to large downstream transmission losses via a noiseless signal amplification. We show that the combination of a squeezed vacuum meter input and a feedforward loop is a quantum nondemolition (QND) device, with the feedforward loop providing an additional improvement on the transfer of signal. In general, the use of a squeezed vacuum meter input and an electro-optic feedforward loop can provide pre- and post- enhancements to many existing QND schemes.
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Finally, we proposed that the quantum teleportation of a continuous-wave optical state can be achieved using a pair of phase and amplitude electro-optic feedforward loops with two orthogonal quadrature squeezed inputs. The signal transfer and quantum correlation of the teleported optical state are analysed. We show that a two dimensional diagram, similar to the QND figures of merits, can be used to quantify the performance of a teleporter.
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Lafont, Ombline. "Analysis and control of polarization effects in structured semiconductor microcavities." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PSLEE035/document.
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En régime de couplage fort lumière-matière, les microcavités de semiconducteurs contenant des puits quantiques abritent des quasi-particules appelées exciton-polaritons de microcavité. Leur caractère hybride mi-électronique, mi-photonique, leur confère des propriétés optiques non-linéaires remarquables. Nous nous intéressons dans cette thèse à des microcavités structurées qui permettent la coexistence de branches polaritoniques de symétrie et d'énergie différenciées. Une microcavité gravée en rubans de quelques micromètres de large est d'abord étudiée. Le confinement latéral lève la dégénérescence entre les modes polarisés parallèlement et orthogonalement à la direction du ruban. Nous montrons que ce dédoublement résulte de contraintes structurales intrinsèques, de sorte que son amplitude peut être décidée dès la conception du dispositif. Nous nous intéressons ensuite à une microcavité double. En régime de diffusion Rayleigh élastique, le dédoublement TE-TM conduit à une séparation spatiale et angulaire des polaritons de pseudo-spins différents. Nous montrons que ce phénomène, appelé "effet Hall optique de spin" peut être contrôlé par un faisceau de pompe intense. Dans le régime d'oscillation paramétrique optique, la lumière s'auto-organise pour former un motif dans le champ lointain. Les règles de sélection concernant l'orientation et la polarisation de ces motifs sont explorées dans le régime d'amplification paramétrique optique. Ces études ouvrent la voie de la conception de "dispositifs de microphares" (capables d'orienter continûment la lumière par un simple contrôle en polarisation) et d'interrupteurs tout-optique ultra-rapidesSemiconductor microcavities with embedded quantum wells in the strong light-matter coupling regime host quasi-particles called microcavity exciton-polaritons. Their hybrid nature, half-electronic, half-photonic, brings about remarkable nonlinear optical properties. In this work, we focus on microcavities that are structured to enable the coexistence of polaritonic branches with various symmetries and energies. First, a microcavity etched to form micrometers-wide wires is studied. The lateral confinement lifts the degeneracy between the modes which are polarized parallel and orthogonal to the wire direction. We show that this splitting results from built-in constraints which make a precise engineering of the splitting magnitude possible. We then focus on a double microcavity. In the elastic Rayleigh scattering regime, the TE-TM splitting induces a spatial and angular separation of polaritons with different pseudospins. We show that this phenomenon, called "Optical Spin Hall Effect", can be controlled by a strong optical pump beam. In the regime of Optical Parametric Oscillation, the light self-organizes to form patterns in the far field. The selection rules for the orientation and polarization of these patterns are explored in the regime of Optical Parametric Amplification. These studies pave the way for the realization of microscopic "lighthouse" devices (able to continuously orientate the light by a simple polarization control) and ultrafast all-optical switches
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Feaver, Ryan K. "Cascaded Orientation-Patterned Gallium Arsenide Optical Parametric Oscillator for Improved Longwave Infrared Conversion Efficiency." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1493206535730182.
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Hewitt, Sarah Elaine. "Dynamics and stability of periodic spatial patterns in the optical parametric oscillator /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6777.
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Cui, Yong. "UV pumped holosteric optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14889.
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The all-solid-state (or "holosteric") optical parametric oscillator has resulted from the recent development of diode-laser-pumped solid-state lasers and from recent advancements in new optically nonlinear materials. As a result, all-solid-state sources of widely tunable (ultraviolet - visible - near infrared) coherent radiation are now possible by using the radiation from diode-laser-pumped solid-state lasers, either directly or after frequency conversion, to pump optical parametric oscillators. Such devices can be made compact, efficient and reliable. The work described in this thesis explores the feasibility of obtaining widely tunable radiation from such devices, with particular reference to low threshold, high efficiency operation, so requiring only modest energies (1 mJ in ultraviolet) from the pump source. In particular, a frequency tripled or frequency quadruped Nd:YAG laser pumped by pulsed, GaAlAs diode laser bars has been used as the pump source, and lithium triborate has been used as the nonlinear medium in the optical parametric oscillator. Two geometries of lithium triborate crystals have been investigated as the nonlinear medium. One was cut for a type II non-critical phase matching geometry, while the other was cut for a type I critical phase matching geometry. The oscillator cavities were designed for optimum focusing and mode matching aiming for operation with a low pump energy through the use of tightly focused pump radiation. The ultraviolet pump source was based on a Q-switched diode-laser-pumped Nd:YAG laser which generated pulses at 1.064 mum with energy 10 mJ and duration around 10 ns. These were then frequency up-converted to the UV at 355 nm or 266 nm, so as to be suitable for pumping the parametric oscillators. Generally, an overall conversion efficiency from 1.064 mum to 355 nm of >30% was obtained using the nonlinear materials potassium titanyl phosphate and lithium triborate for second harmonic generation and sum-frequency mixing respectively. For conversion to 266 nm, an overall efficiency of > 18 % was obtained using the nonlinear materials KTP and BBO for two step second harmonic generation. In the experimental investigations of the all-solid-state lithium triborate optical parametric oscillator pumped at 355 nm a low oscillation threshold was obtained in the type II non-critical phase matching geometry (around 0.2 mJ) and pump depletions of 50 % were obtained at around six times threshold. This device could be temperature tuned (20 - 200 °C) from 457 to 481 nm (signal wave) and 1.6 to 1.35 mum (idler wave). Optimised focusing conditions corresponding to the theory of Guha et al were approached in the type I phase matching geometry, and despite the existence of a 1° walkoff angle, the minimum oscillation threshold was measured to be around 0.3 mJ. Generally, pump depletions of about 35 % were obtained, at around four times threshold. These devices could be angle tuned (through crystal internal angle 14°) from 457 to 666 nm (signal wave) and 1.6 mum to 768 nm (idler wave). (The whole of the range 420 nm to 2.3 mum could be covered with such a device given additional mirror sets). The all-solid-state type II geometry lithium triborate optical parametric oscillator was also pumped at 266 nm, when it was temperature tunable (20 - 200 °C) from 306 to 314 nm (signal wave) and 2.03 to 1.75 mum (idler wave). Pump depletions of 25 % were demonstrated with this device at pump energies of four times threshold. In addition to the above experimental investigations, the thesis addresses the issues of (i) choice of nonlinear material for optical parametric oscillators in terms of appropriate figures of merit, and (ii) optimisation of pump and resonated wave focusing parameters. Reviews of the appropriate theoretical background to phase matching geometries and optical parametric interaction are included.
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Feaver, Ryan K. "Longwave-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillator in Orientation-Patterned Gallium Arsenide." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1324048074.
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Bernard, Alice. "Towards an electrically-injected optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCC104/document.
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Le travail présenté dans cette thèse porte sur la conception, la fabrication et la caractérisation de sources prévues pour fonctionner à la fois comme diode laser et comme oscillateur paramétrique optique. Ces lasers sont conçus pour émettre sur un mode d’ordre supérieur afin de permettre une conversion de fréquence paramétrique avec les modes fondamentaux du guide à la fréquence moitié. La diode laser et l’OPO partagent la même cavité optique ; pour assurer l’accord de phase et corriger les écarts à la structure nominale induits lors de l’élaboration par épitaxie, la largeur de ruban est utilisée comme paramètre de contrôle des indices efficaces. Les diodes proposées sont donc étroites (3-5 µm) et gravées profondément. En conséquence, il est potentiellement intéressant d’utiliser des boîtes quantiques pour limiter les recombinaisons non radiatives sur les flancs. Dans le cadre de ce travail, nous avons conçu des diodes basées sur ce principe pour les deux systèmes GaAs/AlGaAs et InGaAsP/InP, qui permettent respectivement d’obtenir potentiellement une émission OPO au voisinage de 2 µm ou de 3 µm. Dans le cas de l’InGaAsP/InP, nous avons étudié au préalable l’indice de réfraction des alliages InGaAsP dans une plage de longueur d’onde jusque-là non couverte par la littérature. Ces données ont été acquises via des mesures d’indice efficace (m-lines) de couches guidantes d’InGaAsP épitaxiées en accord de maille sur un substrat d’InP. Pour des structures laser-OPO optimisées, les simulations montrent que le seuil OPO devrait être obtenu pour une puissance de pompe intracavité de quelques centaines de mW, qu’il est réaliste d’atteindre pour des diodes laser à l’état de l’art. Nous avons étudié les propriétés électro-optiques de diodes lasers à puits quantiques GaAs/AlGaAs réalisées sur la base de nos dessins; l’observation de l’effet laser sur le mode TE2 valide le dessin vertical original de nos diodes lasers. En vue de la fabrication de laser-OPO à ruban étroit, nous avons développé des procédés de fabrication nouveaux sur la Plateforme Technologique Amont (CEA – Grenoble), notamment la gravure profonde (>10 µm) par ICP-RIE. Enfin, nous avons proposé un concept alternatif de diode-OPO, comprenant des cavités laser et OPO distinctes couplées par un taper adiabatiqueThe work presented in this thesis deals with the design, fabrication and characterization of sources intended to function as both laser diodes and optical parametric oscillators. These lasers are designed to emit on a higher order mode to allow parametric frequency conversion with fundamental modes of the guide at half frequency. The laser diode and OPO share the same optical cavity; to ensure phase matching and correct nominal structure deviations induced during epitaxial processing, the ridge width is used as a control parameter of the effective indices. The proposed diodes are therefore narrow (3-5 μm) and etched deeply. Consequently, it is potentially interesting to use quantum dots to limit non-radiative recombination on the sidewalls. In the context of this work, we have designed diodes based on this principle for the two GaAs/AlGaAs and InGaAsP/InP systems, which respectively allow to potentially obtain an OPO emission in the vicinity of 2 μm or 3 μm. In the case of InGaAsP/InP, we previously studied the refractive index of InGaAsP alloys in a wavelength range not covered by literature to this day. This data was acquired via effective m-line index measurements of InGaAsP guiding layers epitaxially grown on and lattice-matched to an InP substrate. For optimized laser-OPO structures, simulations show that the OPO threshold should be obtained for an intracavity pump power of a few hundred mW, which is realistic to achieve for state-of-the-art laser diodes. We have studied the electro-optical properties of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well laser diodes made on the basis of our designs; the observation of the laser effect on the TE2 mode validates the original vertical design of our laser diodes. For the manufacture of narrow-ridge lasers-OPOs, we have developed new manufacturing processes on the Plateforme Technologique Amont (Upstream Technology Platform, CEA - Grenoble), including deep etching (> 10 μm) by ICP-RIE. Finally, we have proposed an alternative diode-OPO concept, comprising distinct laser and OPO cavities coupled by an adiabatic taper
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Lyons, Sean Christopher. "Numerical modelling of a nanosecond optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248729.
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Bromley, Leigh John. "Development of the synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1990. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/404739/.
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An investigation was made into the feasibility of using the synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator (SPOPO) as a source of subnanosecond pulses tunable across the near- and mid-infrared. Two devices were developed, based on relatively new nonlinear crystals that had not previously been used as gain media in SPOPOs. Optical parametric oscillation, synchronously pumped by the amplified and then frequency doubled output from an actively mode locked and Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, was first achieved in beta-barium borate (BBO) and then in potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP). The BBO oscillator produced broadly tunable pulses covering ~0.68 to 2.4 µm, but its large double refraction walk-off angle, and critical phase matching, precluded tight pump beam focusing in the crystal, and this led to a high threshold peak pump intensity of ~2.2 GWcm-2 . The XTP crystal, used in the second SPOPO, allowed for non-critical phase matching, and had a higher nonlinear coefficient and smaller walk-off than BBO, and this gave a much lower threshold of ~650 MWcm-2 (but limited tuning from ~1.04 to 1.09 µm). Both devices converted up to ~ 30% of the pump energy to generate ~ 75 ps parametric pulses.
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Tiihonen, Mikael. "Spectral Management in Quasi-Phase-Matched Parametric Devices." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4021.
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Collar, A. J. "Differential absorption lidar using an optical parametric oscillator source." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370334.
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Gonzales, Ureta Junior Ricardo. "Orbital angular momentum in an driven optical parametric oscillator." Master's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2018. http://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/repositorio/handle/123456789/11975.
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El control del Momento Angular Orbital (OAM por sus siglas en inglés) de la luz en sistemas óptico cuánticos puede proveernos de un grado adicional de libertad, lo cual nos puede permitir muchas aplicaciones en mecánica cuántica y tecnologías de la comunicación que tengan como eje central la óptica en su desarrollo. Luz laser con OAM, vórtices ópticos, son generalmente descritos por modos de Laguerre-Gausianos, los cuales tienen una distribución de intensidad tipo dona, con singularidades de fase en su frente de onda. En este caso particular los modos son de primer orden y la esfera de Poincaré da una conveniente representación geométrica para el subespacio expandido por esta base. Continuando la propuesta teórica hecha por B. Coutinho dos Santos et al. en 2007, en este proyecto estamos interesados en estudiar de forma experimental la dinámica de un Oscilador Paramétrico Óptico (OPO) bajo la inyección de un haz con OAM. El objetivo principal es caracterizar la conservación de OAM en los haces gemelos, nombrados "signal" y "idler" por razones históricas, provenientes del OPO inyectado, de acuerdo a una simetría no trivial en la esfera de Poincaré. Otro objetivo es el estudio teórico de la dinámica de los haces de luz gemelos, de acuerdo a parámetros experimentales reales del arreglo usado, y de ese modo mejorar la eficiencia en la creación de los fotones gemelos, lo cual permitiría el estudio experimental del entrelazamiento cuántico con este aparato. También, en la mira de este trabajo se encuentra, la medición y caracterización del "squeezing" que fue realizada en el recientemente montado OPO de la UFF.The control of the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light in quantum optical system can provide an additional degree of freedom, that can enable many applications in quantum mechanics and optical communications. Lasers beams with OAM (optical vortices) are generally described by Laguerre-Gaussian modes, which have a doughnut intensity distribution with phase singularities in the wavefront. In the special case of first order OAM modes, the Poincaré sphere gives a convenient geometrical representation of those optical vortices. Following the theoretical proposal done by B.Coutinho dos Santos et. al in 2007, in this project we are interested in studying experimentally the dynamics of an Optical Parametric Oscillator under the injection of a seed beam with OAM. The main aim of this project is to characterize the OAM conservation in the twin beams, namely signal and idler, coming from the injected Optical Parametric Oscillator, according to the symmetry in the Poincaré sphere. We aim also at studying theoretically the dynamics of the twin beams generated, according to the real experimental parameters of the setup, to improve the twin beams creation efficiency, which will enable us to study experimentally quantum entanglement in this apparatus. Also, in the scope of this work, the measurements and characterization of squeezing was performed in the recent mounted OPO at UFF.
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Balskus, Karolis. "Versatile femtosecond optical parametric oscillator frequency combs for metrology." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/3198.
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This thesis addresses the development of broadly tunable, high repetition rate frequency combs in the mid-IR region. A novel PPKTP crystal design was used to provide phasematching for parametric oscillation and simultaneously give efficient pump+idler sum-frequency generation (SFG). This innovation enabled a fully stabilized idler comb from a 333-MHz femtosecond optical parametric oscillator to be generated in which the carrier envelope offset frequency fCEO together with the repetition frequency fREP were stabilised. This OPO platform was then extended to demonstrate, via harmonic pumping, a fully stabilized 1-GHz OPO frequency comb from a 333-MHz pump laser. Next, an alternative route to a 1-GHz OPO comb was investigated by synchronously pumping an OPO directly with a 1-GHz Ti:sapphire laser. Here the comb was fully stabilized for the signal, idler and pump pulses by using a narrow linewidth CW diode laser developed for the project and whose design is also presented. A further increase in the comb mode spacing was performed with a Fabry-Pérot cavity. A stabilised cavity was used to filter 1.5 m signal pulses from a 333-MHz repetition rate OPO frequency comb to yield a 10-GHz comb. The length of the Fabry-Pérot cavity was dither locked to a single-frequency ECDL and later on directly to the OPO frequency comb. Finally the 333-MHz OPO comb was demonstrated in an optical frequency metrology experiment. The frequency comb mode number and the absolute frequency of a narrow-linewidth CW laser were measured and the performance of the OPO comb was found to be comparable to that of a commercial fibre laser comb used as a benchmark in the experiment.
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Arciniegas, Carlos Andres Gonzalez. "Properties of the light emitted by a silicon on-chip optical parametric oscillator (OPO)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/43/43134/tde-22112017-153330/.
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The Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) has been one of the most versatile source of non-classical states of light. Usual configurations of such devices are a macroscopic second order nonlinear crystals inside an optical cavity. Recently the use of silicon photonics techniques allowed the implementation of high quality factor microcavities and OPOs which include several technological advantages over usual configuration as a small size, bigger bandwidth, CMOS compatibility, facility to engineer the dispersion properties and compatibility with commercial optical fiber communications. Nevertheless the nonlinearity present within these systems is a third order nonlinearity for which theoretical calculations lack in the literature. Here we describe theoretically the quantum properties of the light generated in an OPO with a third order nonlinearity. We showed that the effects of phase modulation (which are not present in the second order nonlinearity) and dispersion are determinant in the way that oscillation and entanglement is produced in the system. Despite of these effects, bipartite and tripartite entanglement is predicted with the use of the Schmidt modes formalism. We also describe the system when there are more modes exited within the cavity and a frequency comb is formed. In such a situation, using again the Schmidt modes formalism, multipartite entanglement was predicted as well.O oscilador paramétrico ótico (OPO) tem sido uma fonte muito versátil de estados não clássicos da luz. A configuração usual destes OPOs consiste em um cristal macroscópico com não linearidade de segunda ordem no interior de uma cavidade ótica. Recentemente, devido ao desenvolvimento da fotonica de silício, foi possível a implementação de micro- cavidades óticas e OPOs que possuem varias vantagens sobre OPOs usuais. Não entanto a não linearidade destes sistemas é de terceira ordem. Neste trabalho, descrevemos teoricamente as propriedades quânticas da luz gerada num OPO com não linearidade de terceira ordem. Mostra-se que os efeitos de modulação de fase (não presentes na não linearidade de segunda ordem) e a dispersão são determinantes para a geração e o emaranhamento produzido no sistema. Emaranhamento bi e tri partito foi predito teoricamente usando o formalismo de modos de Schmidt. Também foi feita uma descrição quando mais modos da cavidade são excitados gerando um pente de frequência. Nesta situação. e utilizando novamente o formalismo de modos de Schmidt, foi predito emaranhamento multimodo destes sistemas.
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Jacobsson, Björn. "Spectral control of lasers and optical parametric oscillators with volume Bragg gratings." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Laserfysik, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4691.
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I den här avhandlingen visas hur lasrar och optiska parametriska oscillatorer (OPO:er) kan styras spektralt med hjälp av volymbraggitter. Volymbraggitter utgörs av ett periodiskt varierande brytningsindex som skrivits i ett fototermorefraktivt glas. Gittret reflekterar därmed en specifik våglängd som bestäms av perioden hos modulationen, och kan tillverkas med smal bandbredd och hög reflektans beroende på modulationens längd och styrka. En teoretisk modell har utvecklats för reflektiva volymbraggitters egenskaper om den infallande strålen har en större vinkelspridning än gittrets vinkeltolerans. Detta kan bl.a. inträffa i en laserkavitet där gittret används vid snett infall, och en teoretisk beskrivning är därför ett viktigt redskap för att kunna designa sådana lasrar. Spektral kontroll av ett antal fasta tillståndslasrar med hjälp av volymbraggitter har i försök påvisats, och lasern har därvid både kunnat avstämmas spektralt samtidigt som en avsmalnad spektral bandbredd erhållits. Lasern kan göras väldigt enkel genom att byta ut en av kavitetsspeglarna mot gittret. Tack vare gittrets goda spektrala urvalsmekanism kan lasern låsas var som helst i förstärkningsspektrumet. De tekniker och lasrar som demonstrerats experimentellt är följande: Lasring i en enda longitudinell mod erhölls både för en diodpumpad ErYb:glas-laser vid 1553 nm med ca 10 mW:s effekt och 90 kHz linjebredd samt för en diodpumpad Nd:GdVO4-laser vid 1066 nm med 0.85 W:s effekt. Lasrarnas våglängd kunde avstämmas över större delen av gittrets bandbredd på ca. 30 GHz. Genom att bygga Nd:GdVO4-lasern med en monolitisk kavitet kunde även en spektralt synnerligen stabil laser erhållas med under 40 MHz bandbredd. Tillämpningar för dessa lasrar finns både inom spektroskopi samt som källor för intrakavitetsfördubbling till synliga våglängder. Genom att använda gittret som inkopplingsspegel går det även att framställa lasrar med en väldigt låg kvantdefekt, som därför får minskad värmeutveckling i lasermediet. Detta medger i sin tur att lasrar med höga medeleffekter kan konstrueras, som kan användas bl.a. för olika former av materialbearbetning. I detta arbete har lasrar med låg kvantdefekt byggts med Yb:KYW som laserkristall; både en laser vid 998 nm på 3.6 W som diodpumpades vid 982 nm och med en bandbredd på 10 GHz, samt en laser vid 990 nm på 70 mW som pumpades av en Ti:safir-laser vid 980 nm. Om volymbraggittret används vid snett infall kan den reflekterade våglängden avstämmas genom att gittret roteras. Denna princip användes i en diodpumpad Yb:KYW-laser till att erhålla en brett avstämbar laservåglängd mellan 996 nm och 1048 nm med en maximal effekt på 3 W och med 10 GHz bandbredd. Genom att placera gittret i en retroreflektor kunde avstämningen göras utan att kaviteten behövde linjeras om. En laser som denna kan exempelvis användas för olika typer av materialkarakterisering och spektroskopi. Med optiska parametriska oscillatorer (OPO:er) kan laserljus omvandlas till nya våglängder. Därmed kan OPO:er användas som koherenta ljuskällor där inga effektiva lasrar existerar. OPO-processen kan göras effektiv om en pulsad pump används, och den genererade våglängden kan enkelt styras med hjälp av periodiskt polade (PP) icke-linjära kristaller, såsom PP-KTiOPO4, som användes i detta arbete. En nackdel med OPO:er är att i allmänhet är den genererade signalen tämligen spektralt bredbandig. Signalens bandbredd kan dock avsmalnas betydligt om ett spektralt filter såsom ett volymbraggitter används. Genom att byta ut en av speglarna i OPO-kaviteten mot gittret kan utformningen av OPO:n göras väldigt enkel. I en OPO med en signalvåglängd på 975 nm kunde en avsmalning av bandbredden till 50 GHz påvisas med hjälp av ett braggitter. Detta motsvarar 20 gångers minskning jämfört med om en konventionell spegel används. Som mest erhölls en pulsenergi på 0.34 mJ i signalen. Genom att rotera gittret kunde våglängden avstämmas 21 THz. För att förenkla avstämningen konstruerades även en OPO med gittret i en retroreflektor, samtidigt som kaviteten var av ringtyp. I denna OPO vid en våglängd på 760 nm och med en pulsenergi i signalen på upp till 0.42 mJ erhölls en bandbredd på 130 GHz och ett avstämningsområde på 2.6 THz. Slutligen har en OPO vid 1 µm konstruerats med ett gitter med en transversellt varierande period, s.k. chirp. Därigenom kan våglängden avstämmas väldigt enkelt genom att bara flytta gittret transversellt. En tillämpning av dessa OPO:er är såsom ljuskällor i olika typer av laserbaserade sensorer, i vilka en specifik och stabil våglängd erfordras. Dessutom kan de smalbandiga OPO:erna användas som första steg i ickelinjära processer i flera steg. Smal bandbredd är då viktig för effektiviteten i den påföljande ickelinjära omvandlingen i nästa steg.The object of this thesis is to explore the usage of reflective volume Bragg gratings in photo-thermo-refractive glass for spectral control of solid-state lasers and optical parametric oscillators, to build tunable and narrowband coherent light-sources. In order to provide a design tool for use of reflective volume Bragg gratings in laser cavities, a theory was developed that describes the performance of the gratings if the incident beam has finite width with an angular spectrum that is comparable to the grating's angular acceptance bandwidth. Spectral control was demonstrated in a number of cw solid-state lasers, in terms of narrow bandwidth and tunable wavelength, by use of a volume Bragg grating. The design could be made very simple by replacing one of the cavity mirrors with the grating. Thanks to the grating's strong spectral selectivity, the lasers could be locked anywhere in the gain spectrum, while the laser bandwidth was substantially narrowed. In particular, the following lasers were demonstrated: Single-longitudinal-mode lasing in ErYb:glass at 1553 nm with 90 kHz linewidth and in Nd:GdVO4 at 1066 nm with a linewidth below 40 MHz. Very low quantum defect in Yb:KYW lasers, diode-pumped at 982 nm and lasing at 998 nm with 10 GHz bandwidth, as well as Ti:sapphire-pumped at 980 nm and lasing at 990 nm. An Yb:KYW laser that was widely tunable from 996 nm to 1048 nm with 10 GHz bandwidth. In nanosecond pulsed optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) based on periodically poled KTiOPO4, narrowband operation and a tunable wavelength were demonstrated with a volume Bragg grating as a cavity mirror. At a signal wavelength of 975 nm, the bandwidth was 50 GHz, a reduction by 20 times compared to using a conventional mirror. A tuning range of 21 THz was also demonstrated. In another OPO at a signal wavelength of 760 nm, a ring-cavity design was demonstrated to provide convenient tuning. A tuning range of 2.6 THz and a bandwidth of 130 GHz was shown. Also, narrowband operation and tuning in an OPO around 1 µm was demonstrated by use of a transversely chirped Bragg grating.
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Fragemann, Anna. "Quasi-Phasematched nonlinear processes in KTiOPO4 isomorphs." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Physics, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1716.
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This thesis explores the use of nonlinear crystals from theKTiOPO4(KTP) family with the aim to extend the possibleapplications for laser sources and to gain more knowledge aboutthe materials benefits and limits. The work focussed onoptical parametric oscillators (OPOs) and optical parametricamplifiers (OPAs), which employ second order nonlinearprocesses. Both devices transfer energy from a laser beam at aparticular wavelength to a different wavelength, which istuneable. In OPOs two new beams at different wavelengths aregenerated, whereas in OPAs an existing weak beam is amplified.The essential part of these devices, which enables theoccurrence of the energy conversion, is a nonlinear crystal. Inthis work the ferroelectric crystals KTP and RbTiOPO4(RTP) have been utilized.
By modifying the materials structure,quasi-phasematching can be obtained, which is a crucialrequirement for achieving efficient energy conversion betweenthe incident and the generated waves. The fabrication ofquasi-phasematched crystals is dependent on the controlledreversion of the materials spontaneous polarisation,which is accomplished by periodic electric field poling.
Nanosecond pulses of more than 200 kW were generated in theeye-saferegion by employing a double pass OPA.Small signal gains exceeding 75 dB were obtained for anessentially diffraction limited beamwithout spectralbroadening of the seed. By subsequent signal coupling intofibres substantial broadening was accomplished. A systematicmeasurement series of several RTP crystals allowed us toaccurately determine the wavelength and temperature dispersionof the refractive index, which are two essential requirementsfor further employment of this material. The OPOs based on RTPwere widely tuneable by controlling the temperature. It wasalso concluded that RTP behaves similar to KTP in parametricdevices, thus being a material, which can sustain high powers,possesses large nonlinear coefficients and can operate in abroad wavelength region.Efficient Raman oscillation concurrent with parametricoscillation was observed and analysed in several KTP samples.This gave further insight into the processes taking placeinside the material when performing as a frequency converter,if the generated idler lies in the absorption band.This thesis also covers the investigation of afemtosecond optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier.Temporally stretched seed pulses were amplified to 85 µJ,resulting in a gain above 60 dB, and subsequent recompressionresulted in 270 fs pulses.
Keywords:nonlinear optics, KTiOPO4, optical parametric oscillator, optical parametricamplifier, RbTiOPO4, quasi-phasematching, electric field poling,stimulated Raman scattering.
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Andrade, Rayssa Bruzaca de. "An optical parametric oscillator for a light- atomic media interface." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/43/43134/tde-18062018-052437/.
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In this work, we discuss a description of quantum properties of light beams produced by an Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) above threshold, pumped by a 780 nm Titanium Sapphire laser, resonant with the D2 line of Rb with a noise spectrum of a coherent beam. The twin beams have wavelengths around 1560nm, in the telecommunication band. The states emitted by the OPO under study are approximately Gaussian (1), which allows us to describe them in terms of first and second order moments. As we analyze the noise spectrum of the fluctuations of each beam, the first order moments are null, which allows us to describe the state of the system in terms of a covariance matrix. We present the behavior of the noise spectrum and the correlations between the reflected pump, signal and idler beams. In addition, we applied different entanglement criteria to study the system. We present a prediction of the bipartite entanglement using Duan criterion (2). For tripartite correlations, we use the Furusawa criterion (3). We performed a study of bipartition pump and sum quadrature. As well, we applied the PPT criterion (4) for continuous variables, independently transposing each beam under study. The PPT criterion is necessary and sufficient to demonstrate entanglement between bipartitions for Gaussian states. In order to explore the behavior of the system using the steering criterion in the model developed by Reid (5), we theoretically study the criterion of inference for bipartite quadratures: between the twin beams or between one of the twin beams and the pump beam. In addition, we analyzed the inference between the three modes, through the bipartition pump mode and combination of sum quadrature of the twin beams. We develop a quantum teleportation protocol of a coherent input state, composed by the Titanium Sapphire beam whose Bell measurement is performed using the pump reflected by the OPO as an entangled state for the signal and idler beams as a first possibility to implement the protocol. Furthermore, we propose a protocol in which the signal beam assists in the process of teleportation. Thus, the fidelity of the system increases and exceeds the limit of non-cloning. We will describe the first measurements of correlations between the beams emitted by the OPO for this system. The tripartite entanglement characterization is the first step in the implementation of quantum optical protocols using a source of entangled states that is compatible with both Rubidium atomic systems and the telecommunications region, thus forming a quantum network.Nesse trabalho apresentamos uma descrição das propriedades quânticas dos feixes de luz produzidos por um Oscilador Paramétrico Ótico (OPO) acima do limiar, bombeado por um laser de Titânio Safira com comprimento de onda de 780nm, linha D2 do Rb, com espectro de ruído de um feixe coerente. Os feixes gêmeos possuem comprimentos de onda na região de 1560 nm que compreende a janela de transmissão de fibras óticas. Os estados emitidos pelo OPO em estudo são aproximadamente gaussianos (1), o que nos permite descrevê-los em termos de momentos de primeira e segunda ordem. Como analisamos o espectro de ruído das flutuações de cada feixe, os momentos de primeira ordem são nulos, o que nos permite descrever o estado do sistema em termos de uma matriz de covariância. Apresentamos então o comportamento do espectro de ruído e das correlações entre os feixes de bombeio refletido, sinal e complementar. Ademais, aplicamos diferentes critérios de emaranhamento para estudar o sistema. Apresentamos uma previsão do emaranhamento bipartido utilizando o critério de Duan (2). Para as correlações tripartidas, utilizamos o critério de Furusawa (3). Realizamos um estudo da bipartição bombeio e quadratura soma. E, aplicamos o critério PPT para variáveis contínuas (4), transpondo independente cada feixe em estudo. O critério PPT é necessário e suficiente para demonstrar emaranhamento entre bipartições para estados gaussianos. Com o objetivo de explorar qual o comportamento do sistema frente ao critério de \"steering\" no modelo desenvolvido por Reid (5), estudamos teoricamente o critério de inferência para quadraturas bipartidas: entre os feixes gêmeos ou entre um dos feixes gêmeos e o feixe de bombeio. Finalizamos essa análise caracterizando a inferência entre os três modos, através da bipartição modo do bombeio e combinação das quadraturas soma dos feixes gêmeos. Apresentamos a formulação de um protocolo de teletransporte quântico de um estado coerente de entrada formado pelo feixe do Titânio Safira, cuja medida de Bell é realizada utilizando o bombeio refletido pelo OPO como estado emaranhado para os feixes sinal e complementar, como uma primeira possibilidade de implementar o protocolo. Também propomos um protocolo em que o feixe sinal auxilia no processo de teleportação. Dessa forma, a fidelidade do sistema aumenta e supera o limite da não clonagem. Descreveremos as primeiras medidas de correlações entre os feixes emitidos pelo OPO para esse sistema. A caracterização de emaranhamento tripartido nessa nova configuração é o primeiro passo para a implementação de protocolos de ótica quântica utilizando uma fonte de estados emaranhados que é compatível tanto com sistemas atômicos de Rubídio quanto com a região de telecomunicações, formando assim uma rede quântica de transferência e aprisionamento de informação.
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Teja, Joseph. "Intensity noise correlation in a triply resonant optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43393.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-186).
by Joseph Teja, Jr.
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McCracken, Richard A. "Femtosecond optical parametric oscillator frequency combs for coherent pulse synthesis." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2702.
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Coherent pulse synthesis takes as its objective the piecewise assembly of a sequence of identical broadband pulses from two or more mutually-coherent sequences of narrowband pulses. The requirements for pulse synthesis are that the parent pulses share the same repetition frequency, are phase coherent and have low mutual timing jitter over the required observation time. The work carried out in this thesis explored the requirements for broadband coherent pulse synthesis between the multiple visible outputs of a synchronously pumped femtosecond optical parametric oscillator. A femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser was characterised and used to pump a PPKTP-based OPO that produced a number of second-harmonic and sum-frequency mixing outputs across the visible region. Using a novel lock-to-zero CEO stabilisation technique, broadband phase coherence was established between all the pulses on the optical bench, producing the broadest zero-offset frequency comb to date. Employing a common optical path for all the pulses provided common-mode rejection of noise, ensuring less than 150 attoseconds of timing jitter between the pulses over a 1 second observation window. The parent pulses were compressed and their relative delays altered in a quasi-common path prism delay line, allowing pulse synthesis at a desired reference plane.
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Terry, Jonathan A. C. "An all-solid-state optical parametric oscillator for the infrared." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15032.
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A low threshold, efficient optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on the material Potassium Titanyl Phosphate (KTP) and pumped by a diode-laser-pumped, Q-switched Nd:YLF laser has been demonstrated and investigated. This all-solid-state device was operated in a non-critical phase match (NCPM) geometry converting the 1 mum pump light to output wavelengths of 1.54 and 3.28 mum, and has potential as an 'eyesafe' laser source with scaling to higher powers. A major contributing factor to the success of this work was the extension of the steady state theory of the singly resonant OPO to include the build-up time effects that are dominant in the pulsed regime. A number of diode pumped lasers were constructed, allowing a comparison to be made between side- and end-pumping geometries, and also between the materials Nd:YAG and Nd:YLF. The end-pumping geometry in conjunction with the higher absorption and longer upper state lifetime in Nd:YLF made it the design of choice for the case of low pump pulse energies (~ 12 mJ at 797 nm). Anamorphic expansion of the laser mode in the plane parallel to the diode laser junction was employed to achieve TEM00 operation of this laser. Subsequent Q-switching with a polariser and LiNbO3 Pockels cell combination produced 2.2 mJ at 1.047 mum in an 18 ns pulse. Investigation of the dynamic loss of the Q-switch (which is due to the elasto-optic effect) allowed improvement of laser performance. The established model for a pulsed singly resonant OPO which describes the case for a plane-plane resonator was inappropriate in this work and so the steady state focused beam theory was extended to include time dependence. Fair agreement was found between the computer model and the experimental results, where the effects of pump and signal focusing, and output coupling were investigated. The high conversion efficiency of 30% for converting the 1 mum pump light to the eyesafe wavelength of 1.54 mum is superior to the present alternative source of the Er:glass laser. Pump energy thresholds of less than 0.5 mJ were obtained, along with internal conversions approaching 50 %. An empirical relation describing pump depletion was derived which showed good agreement with experiment. A high resolution investigation of the spectral properties of the OPO identified the roles of resonant reflection and doubly resonant behaviour on the mode structure of the output. The former suggests a way in which single mode operation could be achieved without the use of additional intracavity elements, or a seeding source.
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Sinclair, Scott. "Pattern formation and control of spatial structures in optical parametric oscillators." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249142.
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Predojevic, Ana. "Rubidium resonant squeezed light from a diode-pumped optical-parametric oscillator." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/6592.
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La luz comprimida (squeezed light) es uno de los componentes importantes de los experimentos de memorias cuánticas. Un almacenamiento eficientede la luz comprimida en una colectividad de átomos exige que la luz (comprimida) sea resonante a la línea espectral de absorción. El láser de diodo
puede acceder a una amplia clase de líneas espectrales dado al amplio rango de longitudes de onda accesibles. Por lo tanto, el uso de fuentes de luz comprimida basadas en láseres de diodo ampliaría el número de los posibles experimentos. Además, los láseres de diodo reúnen muchas buenas
características como son su construcción robusta y compacta, simplicidad y bajo precio. La única desventaja de los láseres diodo es el ruido de la fase que resulta en un ensanchamiento de sus líneas espectrales.
Esta tesis describe estudios experimentales y teóricos de generación de estados de luz omprimida en cuadratura y polarización, adecuados para la
interacción con átomos de rubidio. En ese ocumento damos una atención especial al ruido de fase y sus efectos en el grado de compresión de la luz
y los métodos para lograr luz comprimida en presencia de ruido de fase generado en el láser de diodo.
La tesis está estructurada de la siguiente manera:
El primer capítulo presenta las ideas generales de la conversión paramétrica de frecuencia (parametric downconversion) en un oscilador paramétrico
óptico. Aquí derivamos la descripción teórica de la luz comprimida en un oscilador paramétrico óptico operado por debajo del nivel umbral.
El segundo capítulo describe el aparato experimental. Primero, damos una descripción detallada del diseño de la cavidad paramétrica óptica y
resumimos las propiedades del cristal no lineal. A continuación, pasamos a describir el láser y los sistemas usados para la estabilización del sistema
láser y de la cavidad del oscilador. En el tercero se discute la ganancia de amplificación y la eficiencia de detección. Por último damos una descripción
general del experimento y presentamos los resultados en la compresión cuántica ("squeezing") de la luz.
El último capítulo analiza los efectos de ruido de fase en el "squeezing" de cuadratura y describe una técnica para eliminar su efecto. Primero,
discutimos el origen del ruido de fase para sistemas de láser de diodo. Segundo, derivamos el grado observable de "squeezing", teniendo en cuenta
los efectos de fluctuaciones cuasi-estacionarias de frecuencia. Por último, mostramos cómo los efectos del ruido de fase pueden ser eliminados y
comparamos la predicción teórica con nuestros resultados experimentales.
El resultado de este proyecto es una fuente de luz no-clásica resonante con la transición atómica del rubidio. Caracterizamos el "squeezing" del estado
de vacío cuántico resultante. El máximo grado de compresión logrado en el experimento fue 2.5dB por debajo del nivel de ruido cuántico. Además
realizamos un análisis del efecto que el ruido de fase tiene en el grado de compresión. Los resultados de este análisis mostraron que en presencia de
ruido de fase se espera que el "squeezing" dependa del retardo relativo entre el haz de luz comprimida y el oscilador local. Comprobamos
experimentalmente esta hipótesis y medimos el grado de compresión como una función del retardo entre la luz comprimida y el oscilador local. Los
resultados experimentales obtenidos fueron consistentes con la teoría.
Aparte de construir una fuente luz comprimida resonante con rubidio, hemos probado que el láser de diodo es una fuente adecuada para la producción
de luz comprimida. Hemos proporcionado una teoría que trata el efecto de ruido de fase en el grado de compresión de la luz en un oscilador
paramétrico óptico. El aparato experimental presentado aquí utiliza técnicas estándar que podrían ser aplicadas a una variedad de otras longitudes de ondas.
This thesis describes experimental and theoretical studies of generation of quadrature- and polarization-squeezed light suitable for interaction with rubidium atoms. Special attention is paid to phase noise, its effects on squeezing, and methods to achieve squeezing in the presence of diode laser phase noise.
Squeezed light is an important component of quantum memories experiments. Efficient storage of (squeezed) light in atomic ensembles requires the
light to be resonant to the respective atomic transition. Diode lasers can access many atomic transitions as they cover significantly broader wavelength
range than other classes of lasers. Consequently, employing diode-laser-based squeezed light sources would broaden the range of possible quantum
memories experiments. Furthermore, diode lasers posses many attractive features like robustness, simplicity, compactness, and low price. The
drawback of the diode laser is it's excess phase noise, which results in a relatively large linewidth. This forms an obstacle for detection of phasesensitive quantum states such as quadrature squeezing.
The thesis is structured as follows:
The first chapter presents the general ideas on parametric downconversion in an optical parametric oscillator. Here we derive the theoretical description
of squeezing of the light field in a subthreshold optical parametric oscillator.
The second chapter describes the experimental apparatus. First, we give a detailed description of the design of the optical parametric oscillator cavity
and summarise the properties of the nonlinear crystal. In continuation, we describe the laser system and the locking systems used for the laser system
and the optical parametric oscillator cavity stabilisations. Third, we discuss the amplification gain and the detection efficiency. Finally, we give a full
overview of the experiment and we present the squeezing results.
The last chapter analyses the effects of phase noise on quadrature squeezing and describes a technique to eliminate its effect. First, we discuss the
origin of the phase noise for diode laser systems. Second, we derive the observable squeezing taking into account the effects of quasi-static frequency
fluctuations. Third, we show how the effects of the phase noise can be eliminated and, last but not least, we compare the theoretical prediction with our
experimental results.
The outcome of this project is a rubidium resonant source of non-classical light. We characterised the output squeezed vacuum state. The maximum
squeezing achieved in the experiment was 2.5dB below shot-noise level. Moreover, we performed an analysis of the effect the phase noise has on the
squeezing. The results of this analysis showed that in presence of phase noise we expected that the squeezing level would depend on the relative
delay between squeezing and local oscillator path. We experimentally tested this statement performing a measurement of squeezing as a function of
the delay between the squeezed light and the local oscillator. The experimental results were consistent with the theory.
Apart form building a source of rubidium resonant squeezed light we have proven that the diode laser is a source suitable for production of squeezed
light. We provided a theory which treats the effect of phase noise on squeezing in optical parametric oscillator.
The experimental squeezing apparatus presented here uses standard techniques which could be applied to a variety of other wavelengths.
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McCarthy, Matthew John. "Investigation of an all solid state synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386664.
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Naz, Naveed A. "Investigation into mid-infrared pulse shaping using an optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/54050/.
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This thesis reports experimental indirect spectral transfer of shaped pulses from the near to mid-infrared via the use of an optical parametric oscillator. It was shown that good spectral fidelity of transfer can be achieved by making suitable adjustments to the OPO. The issues affecting the transfer process are discussed and experimental results are compared with existing theory. The shaping of the nearinfrared pulses was performed using a zero dispersion pulse shaper and a computer controlled spatial light modulator. A suitable search algorithm was written and, with the use of appropriate computer hardware, allowed a closed-feedback loop to be implemented. The computer controlled hardware was demonstrated to be able to autonomously optimise simple experiments in the mid-infrared and optimise the threshold of an optical parametric oscillator.
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Kurti, R. Steven Jr. "Pulse Compression in a Mid-infrared Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1106235646.
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Noble, Jeffrey Scott, and Jeffrey Scott Noble. "Laser Gyroscope based on Synchronously Pumped Bidirectional Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625701.
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This master thesis presents an experimental design of a laser gyroscope based on a stabilized fiber optical parametric oscillator frequency comb and the results of testing of the proposed design. Before going into the experimental details, a background for different types of gyroscopes is discussed. This new laser gyroscope design is made up of only polarization maintaining (PM) fiber and PM fiber components. By using only fiber and fiber components, we were able to minimize size, weight, and alignment issues that are typical in bulk optical designs for OPO's and gyroscopes.
The fiber-based OPO produces counter propagating ultrafast pulses that overlap only twice in the cavity, resulting in a beatnote signal when combined outside of the laser cavity. A mode-locked laser is used as a pump source so the lock-in effect (or deadband region) is avoided for the experiment. The drift of this beatnote signal represents the rotation sensitivity of the experimental setup. Issues seen in past iterations, such as stability of mode-locked pump source and beatnote drift overtime due to environmental variables, have been reduced in this experiment. This has been done by comprising the entire pump source of PM components, and by placing the entire setup in an insulating box to minimize acoustic and temperature fluctuations. By creating a frequency comb and locking the laser gyroscope to an optical clock, this experiment can be used for very precise rotation sensing in comparison to other gyro designs currently available.
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Williams, J. F. "The optical parametric oscillator, saturating blow-up in the large detuning limit." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ61515.pdf.
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Mason, Elliott J. (Elliot James) 1972. "Selp-phase locking in a type-II phase matched optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38804.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-56).
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Herman, Gregory S. "Terahertz Local Oscillator Via Difference Frequency Generation in III-V Semiconductors Using Frequency Stabilized Lasers." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/306995.
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Terahertz (THz) heterodyne receiver systems are required by NASA to monitor gas concentrations related to the Earth's ozone depletion. To this end, NASA needs compact, solid state, tunable THz local oscillators. THz LOs have been developed using three means: 1) All-electronic LOs using mixers in combination with Gunn oscillators, 2) Hybrid Photo-electronic LOs using a cw analog of the Auston switch, and 3) All-photonic THz LOs using coherent sources, such as vapor lasers or solid-state Quantum Cascade Lasers, and down converting lasers using nonlinear crystals. In this dissertation, we began with two frequency stabilized Nd:YAG lasers, locked to a common reference cavity, as a starting point to having a stable input into a nonlinear optical frequency conversion system. Following this, we explored the nonlinear crystals useful for THz generation, and the phasematching schemes that could be employed by each. We concluded by settling on highly insulating III-V semiconductor crystals as the proper choice of nonlinear element, and put together a new phasematching method that is most useful for them.
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Patterson, Steven Gregory. "Quantum intensity noise correlation in a Type-II phase matched optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36977.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-105).
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Ferreiro, Teresa I. "Development and characterisation of a near-infrared femtosecond optical parametric oscillator frequency comb." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2802.
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This thesis describes a 280 MHz MgO:PPLN-based optical parametric oscillator (OPO) synchronously pumped by a 50 fs Ti:sapphire laser to produce ultrafast pulses in the near-infrared. The OPO tuned over a wavelength range from 1450 - 1550 nm and 1624 - 1750 nm for the signal and idler respectively. The carrier-envelope-offset (CEO) frequency of the signal pulses was stabilised to a 10 MHz reference frequency without f-2f self-referencing, with an RMS phase variation of 0.56 rad over an observation time of 1 second. The relative intensity noise was measured for the CEO-stabilised OPO over an observation time of 64 seconds as 0.04%. The repetition frequency of the OPO was stabilised to 280 MHz using a frequency synthesiser at the eighth harmonic (2.24 GHz). This locking loop had an RMS phase variation of 0.98 mrad over a 1 second observation time. The CEO- and repetition frequencies were then locked simultaneously to a synthesiser referenced to a Rb-disciplined source, to generate a fully stabilised 1.5 μm frequency comb with an absolute uncertainty in comb mode position of 110 Hz. The upper limit for the fractional instability for a comb mode at 200 THz was found to be 2 x 10-11, limited by the stability of the Rb reference. A five-fold increase in comb mode spacing to 1.4 GHz was demonstrated with the stabilised frequency comb. This was achieved using a passive filter cavity, stabilised to a transmission peak via dither locking. The FWHM bandwidth of the optical spectrum for the filtered frequency comb was reduced to 8 nm, however no increase in comb linewidth was observed. An additional experiment was carried out where an external cavity diode laser was frequency-stabilised to a saturated absorption peak in Rb at 780.2 nm using dither locking, providing an optical frequency reference for future OPO frequency combs.
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Villar, Alessandro de Sousa. "\"Estudo de emaranhamento no oscilador paramétrico ótico não-degenerado acima do limiar\"." Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/43/43134/tde-05062007-140157/.
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A compressão nas flutuações da diferença de intensidades dos feixes sinal e complementar gerados por um OPO acima do limiar foi medida já há algum tempo e constituiu um dos principais interesses nestes sistemas. Emaranhamento entre esses feixes, entretanto, ainda não foi experimentalmente demonstrado em circunstâncias normais de operação acima do limiar (feixes não-degenerados em frequência). Usando um critério de não-separabilidade entre sistemas contínuos, buscamos verificar se a variância de um par de operadores tipo EPR, a diferençaa de intensidades e a soma das fases de sinal e complementar, pode violar uma desigualdade suficiente para caracterizar emaranhamento. Após um estudo teórico, verificamos que isto pode de fato ocorrer numa região de parâmetros experimentalmente acessível. A medida não foi realizada até hoje devido à dificuldade em se medir quadratura fase, o que, neste caso, exigiria o uso de osciladores locais em frequências distintas. Motivados por isso, propomos uma montagem experimental que utiliza cavidades óticas para projetar ruído de fase em ruído de intensidade, tornando dessa forma acessível a medida de anticorrelação de fase entre sinal e complementar. Realizamos nossa proposta em caráter preliminar, obtendo resultados encorajadores, embora não conclusivos, que indicam a existência de emaranhamento.Squeezing in the intensity difference of signal and idler beams generated by an OPO operating above threshold was observed some time ago and presented one of the major attraction of this system. Entanglement between the macroscopic fields, however, has not yet been demonstrated in normal operation conditions above threshold (non-degenerate beams). Using a non-separability criterion for continuous variables, we investigate whether the variances of a pair of EPR-like operators, difference of intensities and sum of phases of signal and idler, can violate a Bell-type inequality and hence characterize entanglement. After a theoretical study, we verified that entanglement can occur in an experimentally accessible region of parameters. This measurement was not performed to date owing to the difficulty of measuring the phase quadratures, which usually requires the use of local oscillators with slightly different frequencies. Motivated by this, we propose an experimental setup that uses optical cavities to rotate the noise ellipse of each beam, projecting phase noise into intensity noise, thus allowing the experimental access to the phase quadratures. We preliminarly implemented our proposal and obtained promising although not conclusive results, that indicate entanglement.
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Butterworth, Stuart David. "Investigations of a high power all-solid-state synchronously-pumped lithium triborate optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1997. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/394570/.
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The work presented in this thesis describes the operation of a high power all-solid-state synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator based on a Brewster-angled lithium triborate crystal. The OPO is pumped by a resonant frequency doubled, amplified, diode-pumped mode-locked laser. Performance characteristics of the individual "modules" in the overall system are presented. The work describes the production of 2.0 psec pulses from a diode-pumped Nd:YLF laser using the passive mode-locking technique of additive-pulse-modelocking (APM). This method was the most convenient available at the time of this research, and provides the shortest pulses from the Nd:YLF laser and hence, the greatest peak power. Average power levels of 540mW were obtained in pulses having a peak power of 2.5kW. The pulses were subsequently amplified in a simple end-pumped Nd:YLF amplifier to average power levels of ~1W with peak powers of ~4kW. At these peak power levels, efficient single-pass harmonic generation was still not possible with the non-linear crystals available at the time, so the technique of resonant enhancement was employed. This produced 660mW of green light in an optimised resonator with a peak power of ~3.1kW at a conversion efficiency approaching 80%. These three individual stages when taken together, constitute the pump source for the LBO optical parametric oscillator. Continuous synchronous pumping was achieved using a temperature-tuned noncritically phase-matched lithium triborate crystal as the nonlinear gain medium. An extensive tuning range from 0.65 to 2.7µm was obtained with average output powers for the signal (idler) as high as 200mW (110mW). With the high intra-cavity powers of the resonated signal wave we observed significant chirping on the output pulses via self-phase modulation. By providing dispersion compensation via intra-cavity prisms the chirp was removed and produced transform-limited pulses of duration 1.6psec with peak powers of ~800W. As a result of this work it has been possible to provide a complete design strategy for achieving reliable operation of an all-solid-state picosecond source with broad tunability in the near infrared.
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Marsden, Philip Andrew. "Investigation of narrow-band semiconductor quantum well structures using a synchronously-pumped optical parametric oscillator." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2001. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/30239/.
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Measurements of spin relaxation processes were made in the technologically interesting InGaAs/InP quantum well system. The first non-linear pump and probe measurements were performed in a single 80Å lattice-matched InGaAs/InP quantum well layer. To make these measurements a synchronously-pumped parametric oscillator was constructed, using periodically-poled lithium niobate as its non-linear element. Investigations of dominant carrier species and their associated spin relaxation were made as a function of temperature. A model was constructed for comparison to the experimental data showing the dominance of excitons at low temperature, with un-bound electron-hole effects dominating at temperatures above 100K.
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Kovalchuk, Evgeny. "Optical parametric oscillators for precision IR spectroscopy and metrology." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15759.
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In der vorliegenden Doktorarbeit wird ein Dauerstrich Optisch Parametrischer Oszillator (cw OPO) vorgestellt, der speziell für die hochauflösende Dopplerfreie Molekülspektroskopie und Metrologie entwickelt wurde. Der kontrollierte Zugang zu jeder beliebigen Wellenlänge im breiten Emissionsspektrum von OPOs wie auch das präzise Abstimmen seiner Ausgangsfrequenz über zu untersuchende molekulare und atomare Übergänge stellten lange Zeit Probleme dar, deren Lösung die Grundzielsetzung dieser Arbeit war. Das im Laufe dieser Arbeit entwickelte System hat diese Ziele vollständig erreicht, was durch verschiedene Messungen und Anwendungen demonstriert wurde. Zu diesem Zweck wurde ein neues OPO-Design mit einem Intracavity-Etalon entwickelt und aufgebaut, wobei der OPO auf dem Konzept eines einfach-resonanten cw OPOs mit resonanter Pumpwelle basiert. Die OPO-Ausgangsstrahlung zeigt sehr gute Langzeitstabilität und Spektraleigenschaften, welche durch direkte Frequenzvergleichsmessungen mit einem optischen Methan-Frequenzstandard im Infraroten bestimmt wurden. Eine Idler-Linienbreite von 12 kHz und ein Modensprung-freier Betrieb des OPOs über einen Zeitraum von einigen Tagen wurde beobachtet. Außerdem wurde gezeigt, dass ein OPO zu einer hochstabilen optischen Referenz phasengelockt und somit seine Frequenz sehr genau kontrolliert und durchgestimmt werden kann. Als erste erfolgreiche Anwendung eines OPOs in der Dopplerfreien Spektroskopie wurde ein Aufbau zur Frequenz-Modulationsspektroskopie in Methan realisiert. Weiterhin, wurde der entwickelte cw OPO mit einem femtosekunden optischen Frequenzkamm kombiniert, um eine neue Idee für eine kohärente Verbindung zwischen dem sichtbaren und dem infraroten Spektralbereich zu realisieren. Als erste Demonstration dieser Technologie wurde ein direkter absoluter Frequenzvergleich zwischen einem Jod-stabilisierten Laser bei 532 nm und einem Methan-stabilisierten Laser bei 3390 nm durchgeführt.This thesis presents a continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator (cw OPO), specially developed for high-resolution Doppler-free molecular spectroscopy and metrology. The basic objective was to solve the long-standing problem of controlled access to any desired wavelength in the wide emission range of OPOs, including the ability to precisely tune the output frequency over the molecular and atomic transitions of interest. The system implemented during this work fully achieves these goals and its performance was demonstrated in various measurements and applications. For this aim, a new design for the OPO cavity with an intracavity etalon was implemented, extending the concept of a cw singly resonant OPO with resonated pump wave. The newly developed device demonstrates very good long-term stability and spectral properties, which were determined in direct beat frequency measurements with a methane infrared optical frequency standard. Thus, an idler radiation linewidth of 12 kHz and mode-hop-free operation of the OPO over several days were observed. Furthermore, it was shown that an OPO can be phase locked to a highly stable optical reference and thus much more precisely controlled and tuned. As the first successful application of OPOs in Doppler-free spectroscopy, a frequency modulation spectroscopy setup for detection of sub-Doppler resonances in methane was implemented. Furthermore, the developed cw OPO was integrated with a femtosecond optical frequency comb to realize a new concept for a coherent link between the visible and infrared spectral ranges. As a first demonstration of this technique, a direct absolute frequency comparison between an iodine stabilized laser at 532 nm and a methane stabilized laser at 3390 nm was performed.
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Ahlrichs, Andreas. "Triply-Resonant Cavity-Enhanced Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/20150.
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Die verlässliche Erzeugung einzelner Photonen mit wohldefinierten Eigenschaften in allen Freiheitsgraden ist entscheidend für die Entwicklung photonischer Quantentechnologien. Derzeit basieren die wichtigsten Einzelphotonenquellen auf dem Prozess der spontanen parameterischen Fluoreszenz (SPF), bei dem ein Pumpphoton in einem nichtlinearen Medium spontan in ein Paar aus Signal und Idlerphotonen zerfällt. Resonator-überhöhte SPF, also das Plazieren des nichtlinearen Mediums in einem optischen Resonator, ist ein weit verbreitetes Verfahren, um Einzelphotonenquellen mit erhöhter Helligkeit und angepassten spektralen Eigenschaften zu konstruieren. Das Anpassen der spektralen Eigenschaften durch gezielte Auswahl der Resonatoreigenschaften ist besonders für hybride Quantentechnologienvon Bedeutung, welche darauf abzielen, unterschiedliche Quntensysteme so zu kombinieren, dass sich deren Vorteile ergänzen. Diese Arbeit stellt eine umfassende theoretische und experimentelle Analyse der dreifach resonanten SPF vor. Das aus der Literatur bekannte theoretische Modell wird diesbezüglich verbessert, dass der Einfluss sämtlicher Eigenschaften des Resonators auf die wichtigen experimentellen Größen (z.B. die Erzeugungsrate) gezielt ausgewertet werden kann. Dieses verbesserte und hoch genaue Modell stellt eine wichtige Grundlage für die Entwicklung und Optimierung neuartiger Photonenpaarquellen dar. Im experimentellen Teil dieser Arbeit wird der Aufbau und die Charakterisierung einer dreifach resonanten Photonenpaarquellen präsentiert. Die neu entwickelte digitale Regelelektronik sowie ein hochstabiler, schmalbandiger Monochromator welcher auf monolitischen, polarisationsunabhängigen Fabry-Pérot Resonatoren basiert, werden vorgestellt. Indem diese temperaturstabilisierten Resonatoren als Spetrumanalysator verwendet werden, wird zum ersten Mal die Frequenzkammstruktur des Spektrums der erzeugten Signal- und Idlerphotonen nachgewiesen. Des Weiteren wird der Einfluss der Pumpresonanz auf die Korrelationsfunktion und die Zweiphotoneninterferenz von Signal- und Idlerphotonen simuliert und vermessen. Abschließend werden Experimente aus dem Bereich der hybriden Quantennetzwerke präsentiert, in welchen Quantenfrequenzkonversion verwendet wird um die erzeugten Signalphotonen in das Telekommunikationsband zu transferieren. Dabei wird nachgewiesen, dass das temporale Wellenpaket durch die Konversion nicht beeinflusst wird und aufgezeigt, wie Quantennetzwerke von kommerziellen Telekommunikationstechnologien profitieren können.The consistent generation of single photons with well-defined properties in all degrees of freedom is crucial for the development of photonic quantum technologies. Today, the most prominent sources of single photons are based on the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) where a pump photon spontaneously decays into a pair of signal and idler photons inside a nonlinear medium. Cavity-enhanced SPDC, i.e., placing the nonlinear medium inside an optical cavity, is widely used to build photon-pair sources with increased brightness and tailored spectral properties. This spectral tailoring by selective adjustment of the cavity parameters is of particular importance for hybrid quantum technologies which seek to combine dissimilar quantum systems in a way that their advantages complement each other. This thesis provides a comprehensive theoretical and experimental analysis of triply-resonant cavity-enhanced SPDC. We improve the theoretical model found in the literature such that the influence of all resonator properties on the important experimental parameters (e.g., the generation rate) can be analyzed in detail. This convenient and highly accurate model of cavity-enhanced SPDC represents an important basis for the design and optimization of novel photonpair sources. The experimental part of this thesis presents the setup and characterization of a triply-resonant photon-pair source. We describe the digital control system used to operate this source over days without manual intervention, and we present a highly stable, narrow-linewidth monochromator based on cascaded, polarization-independent monolithic Fabry-Pérot cavities. Utilizing these temperature-stabilized cavities as a spectrum analyzer, we verify, for the first time, the frequency comb spectral structure of photons generated by cavity-enhanced SPDC. We further simulate and measure the impact of the pump resonance on the temporal wave-packets and the two-photon interference of signal and idler photons. Finally, we present a series of experiments in the context of hybrid quantum networks where we employ quantum frequency conversion (QFC) to transfer the generated signal photons into the telecommunication band. We verify the preservation of the temporal wave-packet upon QFC and highlight how quantum networks can benefit from advanced commercial telecommunication technologies.
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Nery, Marina Trad 1987. "Oscilador paramétrico óptico contínuo e unicamente ressonante no infravermelho próximo." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/277010.
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Orientador: Flávio Caldas da CruzDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin
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Resumo: Esta tese reporta o projeto e a construção de um oscilador paramétrico óptico continuo de frequência unica e sintonizável em torno de 846 nm. 0 cristal responsável pela conversão de frequências e o MgO:PPSLT (Tantalato de Lftio periodicamente polado e dopado com 1% de Oxido de Magnésia), e este e bombeado por ate 6 W de um laser continuo emitindo em 532 nm. Um dos objetivos do experimento e a geração de segundo harmônica, a partir de luz infravermelha, resultando em radiação na região espectral do azul, mais ,precisamente em 423 nm, necessária para experimentos de aprisionamento e resfriamento de átomos neutros de Cálcio. Para isso foi montada uma cavidade em anel unicamente ressonante para o feixe sinal e foi observada oscilação do dispositivo em uma potencia limiar próxima de 5 W, mais alta do que o calculada previamente. Foi possível observar a emissão de 30 m W de radiação do feixe sinal o que representa uma potencia de 30 W dentro da cavidade, ja que o espelho de saída era 99,9% refletor. Também foi possível observar luz azul devido a geração de segundo harmônica (sem Casamento de fase) dentro do cristal PPSLT. Ao longo deste trabalho são apresentados cálculos detalhados da cavidade óptica, das curvas de sintonia do cristal por temperatura e periodicidade da grade e do ganho paramétrico óptico. Acreditamos que o alto limiar de oscilação do dispositivo esteja relacionado a perdas devidas ao efeito fotorrefrativo no cristal, produzido pelo laser de bombeio, já que as perdas da cavidade devido aos espelhos e ao cristal eram baixas. Esta hipótese deve ser melhor investigada em futuras implementação de OPOs bombeados por altas potencias na região espectral do visível
Abstract: This thesis reports the design and construction of an continuously tunable and single frequency optical parametric oscillator around 846 nm. The crystal responsible for the frequency conversion is MgO: PPSLT (periodically poled lithium tantalate doped 1% of magnesium oxide), pumped with up to 6 W by a continuous-wave laser emitting at 532 nm. One goal of the experiment is the second harmonic generation from infrared light, resulting in radiation in the blue spectral region, more precisely 423 nm, necessary for experiments of cooling and trapping of neutral calcium atoms. A ring cavity resonant only for the signal beam was mounted and oscillation has been observed with a threshold of 5 W, higher than previously calculated. It was observed 30 mW ofradiation from the signal representing an intracavity power of 30 W, given the output coupler reflectivity of 99.9% reflector. We also observed blue light due to second harmonic generation (without phase matching) within the crystal PPSLT. Throughout this work we present detailed calculations of the optical cavity, temperature tuning curves for the crystal period of the poling grate and the optical parametric gain. We believe that the observed high threshold is related to losses due to the photorefractive effect in the crystal produced by the pump laser, since other losses due to the cavity mirrors and the crystal were very low. This hypothesis should be further investigated in future implementations of OPOs pumped by high powers in the visible spectral region
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Capelle, Thibault. "Electromechanical cooling and parametric amplification of an ultrahigh-Q mechanical oscillator." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUS045.
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Dans cette thèse, nous avons étudié un système mécanique de très haut facteur de qualité couplé à une cavité micro-onde supraconductrice. Nous présenterons une technique originale de caractérisation des pertes des cavités micro-ondes planaires, ainsi qu’une technique de refroidissement par bande latérale résolue utilisée pour refroidir activement cet oscillateur mécanique à l’aide de la cavité micro-onde. Enfin, nous présenterons des optimisations de cette expérience qui ouvrent la voie au refroidissement de l'oscillateur mécanique dans son état quantique fondamental. Un tel système hybride pourrait jouer le rôle de mémoire quantique sur puce, permettant de stocker les états quantiques non-gaussiens générés par des circuits quantiques supraconducteurs dans des vibrations mécaniques avec des temps de cohérence approchant la secondeIn this thesis, we have studied an ultrahigh quality factor mechanical oscillator coupled to a microwave cavity. We will present an original technique to probe the losses of planar microwave cavities, as well as a resolved sideband cooling technique to actively cool this mechanical oscillator using the microwave cavity. Finally, we will present some optimizations of this experiment which open the path towards the ground state cooling of the mechanical oscillator. Such a hybrid quantum system could be used as an on-chip quantum memory, able to store fragile quantum states generated by superconducting quantum circuits for coherence times approaching a second
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Thomson, Caroline L. "Study of phase-matching geometries in bulk and periodically-poled lithium niobate and their use in intracavity terahertz optical parametric oscillators." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3024.
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This thesis describes the experimental implementation of novel intersecting cavity terahertz optical parametric oscillators based on bulk and periodically-poled magnesium oxide-doped lithium niobate. Both collinear and non-collinear phase-matching geometries have been demonstrated and injection-seeding has been implemented in devices using periodically-poled material to reduce threshold and increase the down-conversion efficiency. A comprehensive characterisation of the original intracavity terahertz OPO was undertaken, which revealed the parameters having the greatest impact on OPO efficiency (idler mirror reflectivity and cavity length) and led to a better understanding of the losses in the system. During the characterisation process, generation of further terahertz radiation at the same frequency as that generated by the parametric process was observed and identified as being a result of difference frequency generation (DFG) between the parametrically-generated idler and terahertz waves. This phenomenon had previously only been observed when periodically-poled materials were employed in the system. The effect of this additional DFG process has been analysed in terms of the enhancement of the terahertz field on the basis of the coupled wave equations and physically measured quantities. The use of periodically-poled lithium niobate has been a major part of the research presented in this thesis. A comprehensive study of the modified phase-matching conditions was carried out and both collinear and novel hybrid non-collinear phase-matching geometries were identified. Several computer models were developed to assess the performance of any given grating design in these different geometries and the effects of temperature tuning and pump wavelength variation were also investigated using the models. Experimental studies confirmed the viability of the modelling approach but material limitations (particularly the early onset of crystal damage) limited the outcomes of the experiments. A detailed comparison of the poled and bulk materials was made to highlight the present drawbacks of the poled material. Finally, injection seeding was used to improve the efficiency of the collinear phase-matched PPLN OPOs. When seeding was used the depletion of the pump pulse was increased to the point of being measurable, reaching an upper level of 10%. Coupling constraints placed on the seed laser limited the amount of depletion attained. The potential for injection seeding to be used in the hybrid non-collinear phase-matching scheme was also identified but not realised during the course of this work. Were this technique successful, the tuning range of the intersecting cavity terahertz OPO could be extended to encompass the sub-1THz region, something that has previously been limited by the available idler cavity angles.
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Andrade, Rayssa Bruzaca de. "Construção de um oscilador paramétrico ótico para uma interface átomo-luz." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/43/43134/tde-26092014-100545/.
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Realizamos neste trabalho a construção de um Oscilador Paramétrico Ótico triplamente ressonante bombeado por um laser de Titânio Safira sintonizável na faixa entre 730 nm e 800 nm com potencial de extensão. Os feixes emitidos possuem comprimento de onda em torno de 1560 nm que estão na janela de transmissão das fibras óticas, com potência de saída máxima em torno de 420 mW e um limiar de oscilação mínimo de 53(3) mW quando bombeado por 780.126(0.03) nm. Para os feixes gêmeos a finesse da cavidade vale F=155 e as perdas intracavidade 0.05(0.1)%, permitindo, em tese, uma compressão de ruído próxima a 97(6)%. Esse OPO foi construído com o propósito de que o utilizemos como fonte geradora de estados triplamente emaranhados em um sistema de armazenamento e transferência de informação quântica quando em interação com um sistema atômico de rubídio. Medimos a potência de limiar e a eficiência de conversão para cada comprimento de onda do feixe de bombeio utilizado para caracterizar o sistema.At the present work we conducted the construction of a triply resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator pumped by a Titanium-Sapphire laser, which is tunable between 730 nm to 800 nm. The emitted beams have wavelength around 1560 nm, in the optical fibers transmission window, maximum output of 420 mW and minimum oscillation threshold of 53(3) mW. For the twin beams, the cavity finesse is F=155 mW and the intracavity losses are 0.05(0.10)%, allowing, in principle, a noise compression close to 97(5)%. The present OPO was built having the purpose of being used as source of triply entangled states in a system for quantum information storage and transfer, while interacting with an atomic rubidium system. We measured the power threshold and conversion efficiency for each pump beam wavelength that we used to characterize the system.
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Voß, Daniel [Verfasser], Hartmut [Gutachter] Roskos, and John [Gutachter] Sheridan. "Investigations on terahertz imaging with pulsed optical parametric oscillator radiation and heterodyne Fourier techniques / Daniel Voß ; Gutachter: Hartmut Roskos, John Sheridan." Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1184986185/34.
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Brasil, Túlio Brito. "Caracterização clássica e quântica de um oscilador paramétrico ótico bombeado em 780 nm." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/43/43134/tde-25042016-233058/.
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Nesta dissertação, descreveremos as primeiras medidas de ruído quântico em um oscilador paramétrico ótico (OPO) bombeado em 780 nm, construído no nosso laboratório. Esse OPO servirá de fonte de estados não clássicos da luz para interação com átomos de rubídio. Faremos uma revisão da teoria clássica do OPO: o bombeamento de um cristal não linear inserido dentro de uma cavidade ótica, produzindo dois feixes intensos de luz (sinal e complementar) com cores distintas. Calcularemos as expressões para o limiar de oscilação, potências de saída dos feixes convertidos e compararemos as principais diferenças entre OPOs com cristais do tipo I e tipo II. Analisaremos a descrição quântica do OPO, calcularemos os espectros de ruído para as quadraturas do bombeio refletido e para as quadraturas dos feixes gêmeos. Veremos que o OPO gera feixes com correlações quânticas, como o emaranhamento tripartido, entres os três feixes envolvidos no processo não linear. O cristal não linear utilizado no nosso experimento é um PPKTP tipo I. Ajustando a temperatura do cristal, podemos gerar feixes próximos da degenerescência até uma diferença de comprimentos de onda de aproximadamente 350 nm. A compressão de ruído quântico observado na diferença das amplitudes dos feixes sinal e complementar é 44%(-2.5 dB). O próximo passo é a implementação da técnica da rotação da elipse de ruído por cavidades óticas, para medir os ruídos de fase dos três campos . Fazendo a verificação do emaranhamento tripartido e determinando a sua dependência com o ruído de fônons inserido pelo cristal, a caracterização do OPO estará completa. A caracterização deste OPO é um passo importante nos objetivos do LMCAL, que é realizar a troca de informação entre luz e átomos em uma rede quântica.In this dissertation, we will describe the first measurements of quantum noise in an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) pumped at 780 nm, built at our laboratory. This OPO will be the source of nonclassical states of light to interact with rubidium atoms. We will review the classical OPO theory: the pumping of a nonlinear crystal inside a cavity producing two bright light beams (signal and idler) with different colors. We will calculate the power threshold, output power of the converted beams and compare the main differences between type-I and type-II OPO.We will analyze the quantum description of the OPO, and calculate the noise spectrum of the reflected pump quadratures and for the twin beams quadratures. We will observe that the OPO generates beams with quantum correlations, for example, the tripartite entanglement among the three fields involved in the nonlinear phenomena. The nonlinear crystal used in our experiment is a PPKTP type-I. By adjusting the temperature of the crystal, we can generate beams from close to degenerate regime to a difference between them of 350 nm. The squeezing of quantum noise measured in the amplitude quadratures subtraction for signal and idler is 44%(-2.5 dB). The next step is to implement the method of ellipse noise rotation by an optical cavity, to be able to measure phase quadratures of the three different fields. By verifying the tripartite entanglement and determining the phonon noise due to the crystal, our source characterization will be complete. The characterization of this OPO is an important step in LMCAL goals, which is to realize exchange of information between light and atoms in a quantum network.
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Armougom, Julie. "Nouvelles sources optiques pour la détection d’espèces chimiques dans la bande III." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAT077/document.
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La spectrométrie laser d'absorption différentielle est une technique bien connue pour la détection à distance d'espèces chimiques dans l'atmosphère. À ce titre, la bande III qui s'étend entre 8 et 12 µm est une région particulièrement intéressante, car les bandes d'absorption de nombreuses espèces chimiques y sont intenses et se recouvrent peu entre elles. Afin de détecter ces espèces à distance dans la bande III, il est nécessaire de disposer de sources dont le rayonnement est fin spectralement, largement accordable, et énergétique. Les sources basées sur l'optique non linéaire du second ordre constituent la seule technologie capable de répondre à ces besoins. Dans ce travail de thèse, nous présenterons des résultats expérimentaux portant sur deux architectures de sources paramétriques permettant d'émettre un rayonnement dans la bande III adapté à la spectrométrie différentielle en configuration lidar. La première architecture consiste à émettre un faisceau directement dans la bande III grâce au pompage de cristaux non linéaire par des sources laser à 2 µm. La seconde architecture, consiste à amplifier les ondes signal et complémentaire issues d'un OPO à 2 µm, avant de les convertir dans la bande III par différence de fréquences. Ces sources sont basées sur l'association de technologies émergentes et sont susceptibles d'offrir des solutions viables au manque de sources émettant dans la bande IIILaser spectrometry by differential absorption is a well-known technique for standoff detection of chemical species in the atmosphere. The longwave infrared region (LWIR), ranging from 8 to 12 µm is particularly interesting because the absorption bands of many chemical species are intense and non-overlapping. In order to detect those species in the LWIR, there is a need for sources that are spectrally narrow, widely tunable, and delivers high energies. The sources based on second order nonlinear optics are the only technology able to meet those requirements. In this work, we will present the experimental results on two parametric architectures that allows emission in the LWIR for lidar measurements. The first one consists in emitting a beam directly in the LWIR by pumping nonlinear crystals with 2 µm pump lasers. The second architecture consists in amplifying the signal and idler beams coming from a 2 µm OPO, before converting them into the LWIR by difference frequency generation. Those sources are based on the association of new technologies and have the potential to offer a viable solution to a lack of sources emitting in the LWIR
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Coelho, Antonio Sales Oliveira. "Emaranhamento multicor para redes de informação quântica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/43/43134/tde-20052014-105215/.
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Apresentamos nesta tese a primeira geração direta de emaranhamento tripartite entre feixes intensos de luz. Medimos o emaranhamento entre os feixes sinal, complementar e bombeio refletido, produzidos por um Oscilador Paramétrico Ótico (OPO) operando acima do limiar de oscilação. A principal característica do nosso sistema é a diferença entre os comprimentos de onda dos campos (l0 = 532.251 nm, l1 = 1062.102 nm, e l2 = 1066.915 nm). Esta é a primeira medida de emaranhamento entre mais de dois subsistemas produzidos por uma única fonte no âmbito de variáveis contínuas. Para investigar a existência emaranhamento, utilizamos o critério de positividade sob transposição parcial (PPT). Este critério, aplicado a sistemas compostos por estados gaussianos, dispostos em bipartições do tipo 1×(N 1), torna-se necessário e suficiente na demonstração do emaranhamento. Realizamos também a caracterização do emaranhamento produzido quando submetemos os campos a perdas, identificando regiões de parâmetros onde os estados apresentam emaranhamento frágil ou robusto. A fim de garantir que estamos lidando com estados gaussianos, investigamos a estatística das flutuações dos campos, mostrando excelente acordo entre os valores dos momentos de ordem mais alta da fotocorrente medida e os valores esperados para uma distribuição gaussiana. O estudo que apresentamos é um passo importante para a elaboração de uma rede de informação quântica que possibilitará a comunicação entre diferentes sistemas físicos.We present in this thesis the first direct generation of tripartite entanglement among bright beams of light. We measured the entanglement among signal, idler and reflected pump beams, produced by an Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) operating above the threshold. The main feature of our system is the difference between the wavelengths of the fields (l0 = 532.251 nm, l1 = 1062.102 nm, e l2 = 1066.915 nm). This is the first measurement of entanglement among more than two subsystems produced by a single source, in a continuous variable system. In order to investigate the existence of entanglement, we applied the criterion of positivity under partial transposition (PPT). This criterion, applied to systems composed of Gaussian states, arranged in 1×(N1) bipartition, becomes necessary and sufficient to demonstrate entanglement. We also characterized the entanglement when the fields are submitted to losses, identifying regions of parameters where the states have fragile or robust entanglement. To ensure that we are dealing with Gaussian states, we investigate the statistics of the fields, showing excelent agreement among values of higher order moments of the photocurrent measured and expected values for a Gaussian distribution. The present study is an important step in the development of a quantum information network formed by different physical systems.
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Mei, Jialin, Kai Zhong, Maorong Wang, Pengxiang Liu, Degang Xu, Yuye Wang, Wei Shi, Jianquan Yao, Robert A. Norwood, and Nasser Peyghambarian. "Compact high-repetition-rate terahertz source based on difference frequency generation from an efficient 2-μm dual-wavelength KTP OPO." SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622890.
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A compact optical terahertz (THz) source was demonstrated based on an efficient high-repetition-rate doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO) around 2 mu m with two type-II phase-matched KTP crystals in the walk-off compensated configuration. The KTP OPO was intracavity pumped by an acousto-optical (AO) Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser and emitted two tunable wavelengths near degeneracy. The tuning range extended continuously from 2.068 mu m to 2.191 mu m with a maximum output power of 3.29 W at 24 kHz, corresponding to an optical-optical conversion efficiency (from 808 nm to 2 mu m) of 20.69%. The stable pulsed dual-wavelength operation provided an ideal pump source for generating terahertz wave of micro-watt level by the difference frequency generation (DFG) method. A 7.84-mm-long periodically inverted quasi-phase-matched (QPM) GaAs crystal with 6 periods was used to generate a terahertz wave, the maximum voltage of 180 mV at 1.244 THz was acquired by a 4.2-K Si bolometer, corresponding to average output power of 0.6 mu W and DFG conversion efficiency of 4.32x10(-7). The acceptance bandwidth was found to be larger than 0.35 THz (FWHM). As to the 15-mm-long GaSe crystal used in the type-II collinear DFG, a tunable THz source ranging from 0.503 THz to 3.63 THz with the maximum output voltage of 268 mV at 1.65 THz had been achieved, and the corresponding average output power and DFG conversion efficiency were 0.9 mu W and 5.86x10(-7) respectively. This provides a potential practical palm-top tunable THz sources for portable applications.
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Cassemiro, Katiuscia Nadyne. "Correlações quânticas multicolores no oscilador paramétrico ótico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/43/43134/tde-11062008-153347/.
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Investigamos as propriedades quânticas conjuntas dos três feixes intensos de luz produzidos por um oscilador paramétrico ótico (OPO) operando acima do limiar, denominados bombeio, sinal e complementar. Analisamos experimentalmente as flutuações quânticas de intensidade e fase destes feixes, e como se correlacionam. Observamos pela primeira vez a presença de correlações quânticas entre as fases dos três campos. O ruído observado na soma das fases de sinal e complementar, Vq12=1,28(3)>1, passa a apresentar compressão de ruído após ser corrigido pelas flutuações de fase do feixe de bombeio, resultando em (Vq12)\' =0,84(3)<1. Para potências mais altas de bombeio, observamos também a existência de correlações quânticas diretamente entre as amplitudes do feixe de bombeio e um dos feixes convertidos (sinal ou complementar); a máxima compressão de ruído medida correspondeu a Vp02=0,86(3)<1. Estendemos nosso estudo às propriedades de emaranhamento deste sistema tripartite, para tanto utilizando dois critérios distintos. Nossos dados apontam a separabilidade do sistema no regime de operação estudado, em contradição com o modelo teórico. Utilizando o critério de emaranhamento de P. van Loock e A. Furusawa, obtivemos os seguintes valores para as combinação de variâncias que comprovariam a inseparabilidade caso fossem menores que 2: V0=1,29(5)<2, V1=2,04(11)>2 e V2=2,09(7)>2. Com relação ao segundo critério de separabilidade, positividade sob transposição parcial, obtivemos os seguintes autovalores simpléticos a partir da matriz de covariância medida: A0=0,94(8) e A1=0,36(6)<1, em que o emaranhamento seria evidenciado caso A0<1 e A1<1. Esta discordância com a previsão teórica está relacionada a um ruído clássico espúrio observado no sistema, cujas características são levantadas nesta tese. Nossa análise indica os rumos a serem seguidos para a observação do emaranhamento. Mostramos teoricamente que o emaranhamento tripartite previsto pode ser utilizado como recurso para a criação de um sistema emaranhado multipartite. Para tanto, diversos OPOs são utilizados em uma configuração em cadeia, na qual o feixe de bombeio refletido pelo primeiro OPO serve de bombeio para o segundo e assim sucessivamente. Este esquema permite a geração de uma rede quântica multicolor escalável. Por fim, descrevemos a construção de um laser de Ti:safira que representa o primeiro passo na integração entre luz não-clássica e física atômica a ser investigada em nosso laboratório. Este laser pode ser utilizado, ao mesmo tempo, como bombeio do OPO e de uma nuvem de átomos. O emaranhamento tripartite gerado no OPO estabeleceria a conexão destes últimos com os feixes convertidos, cujos comprimentos de onda possibilitariam a transmissão direta destes feixes de luz através de fibras óticas comerciais de telecomunicação.We have investigated the collective quantum properties of the three bright light beams produced by an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) operating above threshold, named pump, signal, and idler. We have analyzed experimentally their intensity and phase quantum fluctuations, and how they are correlated. For the first time, we have observed the existence of phase quantum correlations among the three beams. The measured phase-sum noise between signal and idler, Vq12=1,28(3)>1, presents squeezing when corrected by the phase fluctuations of the pump beam, resulting in (Vq12)\'=0,84(3)<1. For higher pump powers, we have observed the existence of amplitude quantum correlations directly between pump and one of the downconverted beams (signal or idler); the maximum measured squeezing level corresponded to the noise Vp02=0,86(3)<1. Our investigations included the entanglement properties of this tripartite system, tested by two different criteria. Our data points to the separability of the system in the accessible regime of operation, in contradiction with the theoretical predictions. Applying the criterion by P. van Loock and A. Furusawa, we have obtained the following values of combinations of variances which would attest the inseparability in case values smaller than 2 would be obtained: V0=1,29(5)<2, V1=2,04(11)>2, and V2=2,09(7)>2. For the second criterion, the positivity under partial transpose, we have obtained the following symplectic eigenvalues calculated from the measured covariance matrix: A0=0,94(8) and A1=0,36(6)<1, where entanglement is attested in case A0<1,and A1<1. This discrepancy with the theoretical prediction is caused by a classical spurious noise observed in the system, which characteristics are investigated in this thesis. Our analysis indicates the path to successfully observe tripartite entanglement. We show theoretically that the predicted tripartite entanglement can be employed as a resource for the construction of a multipartite entangled system. This is accomplished by pumping several OPO\'s with the same optical field, such that the pump beam reflected by the first OPO is utilized to pump a second one, and so on. This scheme allows the generation of a multicolor scalable quantum network. Finally, we describe the construction of a Ti:sapphire laser which represents the first step in the integration between non-classical light and atomic physics to be investigated in our laboratory. This laser could be employed at the same time to pump an OPO and to interact with a cloud of atoms. The tripartite entanglement produced by the OPO could then entangle the atoms to the downconverted beams, which wavelength would allow the transmission of these beams through commercial optical fibers for telecom.