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Microwave Photonics Systems Based on Whispering-gallery-mode Resonators
Published on: August 5, 2013
Efficient upconversion of subterahertz radiation in a high-Q whispering gallery resonator
D V Strekalov1, A A Savchenkov, A B Matsko
1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA. dmitry.v.strekalov@jpl.nasa.gov
Optics Letters
|March 14, 2009
Abstract:
We demonstrate efficient upconversion of subterahertz radiation into the optical domain in a high-Q whispering gallery mode resonator with quadratic optical nonlinearity. The 5x10(-3) power conversion efficiency of a cw 100 GHz signal is achieved with only 16 mW of optical pump.
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