Observation of self-pulsing in singly resonant optical second-harmonic generation with competing nonlinearities

M. Bache; P. Lodahl; A. V. Mamaev; M. Marcus; M. Saffman

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.65.033811

Observation of self-pulsing in singly resonant optical second-harmonic generation with competing nonlinearities

M. Bache, P. Lodahl, A. V. Mamaev, M. Marcus, and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. A 65, 033811 – Published 8 February 2002

Abstract

We predict and experimentally observe temporal self-pulsing in singly resonant intracavity second-harmonic generation under conditions of simultaneous parametric oscillation. The threshold for self-pulsing as a function of cavity tuning and phase mismatch are found from analysis of a three-component mean-field model. Analytical mean-field calculations of the self-pulsing frequency as well as numerical simulations including the effects of a time-dependent pump pulse agree with the experimentally observed frequencies.

Received 6 November 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.033811

Authors & Affiliations

M. Bache^1,2,*, P. Lodahl^1,2,†, A. V. Mamaev^1,‡, M. Marcus¹, and M. Saffman¹

¹Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
²Optics and Fluid Dynamics Department, Risø National Laboratory, Postbox 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark

^*Also at IMM, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark.
^†Present address: Quantum Optics Group, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
^‡Permanent address: Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Vernadskogo 101, Moscow, 117526 Russia.

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