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Quantum State Engineering of Light with Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Published on: May 30, 2014
GaAs optical parametric oscillator with circularly polarized and depolarized pump
P S Kuo1, K L Vodopyanov, M M Fejer
1E L Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. pskuo@stanford.edu
Abstract:
We demonstrate an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on GaAs pumped with linearly polarized and circularly polarized light and show that the relative OPO thresholds agree with theoretical expectations. For the circularly polarized pump, the threshold was as low as for the [111]-linearly polarized pump case. The pump was also passed through a Lyot depolarizer to produce pseudo-depolarized light, and the OPO threshold in this case was only 22% higher than that for [001]-linearly polarized pump.
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