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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Control of quantum pathways for the generation of continuous-wave Raman sidebands
Shin-ichi Zaitsu1, Totaro Imasaka
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan. s-zaitsu@cstf.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
The generation of a multifrequency continuous-wave laser through stimulated Raman scattering and phase-matched four-wave mixing in a medium-filled optical cavity is demonstrated. Three different quantum pathways for the four-wave mixing, two of them degenerate and one of them nondegenerate, can be excited independently by tuning the intracavity dispersion. The results suggest that phase-matched Raman sidebands were generated on the longer wavelength side as well as on the shorter wavelength side, which can be used for the Fourier synthesis of a train of ultrashort optical pulses.
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