Parametric oscillations in a whispering gallery resonator.
We demonstrate strongly nondegenerate optical continuous-wave parametric oscillations in crystalline whispering gallery mode resonators fabricated from LiNbO3. The required phase matching is achieved by geometrical confinement of the modes in the resonator.
Savchenkov
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91109-8099, USA.
Matsko
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Mohageg
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Strekalov
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Maleki
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