Comptes Rendus
no. 10
Specific architectures for optical parametric oscillators
[Architectures spécifiques aux oscillateurs paramétriques optiques]
Antoine Berrou1 ; Jean-Michel Melkonian1 ; Myriam Raybaut1 ; Antoine Godard1 ; Emmanuel Rosencher1 ; Michel Lefebvre1 
1 ONERA – Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales, B.P. 72, 92322 Châtillon cedex, France
Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 8 (2007) no. 10, pp. 1162-1173.

Les oscillateurs paramétriques optiques sont des sources de lumière cohérente qui présentent des propriétés que l'on ne rencontre pas avec les sources laser usuelles. Cet article traite d'architectures optiques qui tirent avantage des propriétés spécifiques du processus de mélange paramétrique à trois ondes. Nous montrons que des cavités optiques peuvent être spécifiquement conçues pour augmenter le rendement de conversion optique ou pour réduire fortement la largeur de raie produite.

Optical parametric oscillators are coherent light sources showing properties that are not encountered with usual laser sources. This article deals with optical architectures that take advantage of the specific properties of the three-wave mixing parametric interaction. We show that optical cavities can be specifically designed to increase either the optical conversion of the parametric process or to reduce dramatically the emitted line width.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crhy.2007.09.012
Keywords: Optical parametric oscillator, Specific optical cavity, Mid-IR tuneable source
Mot clés : Oscillateur paramétrique optique, Cavité optique spécifique, Source IR moyen accordable
Antoine Berrou 1 ; Jean-Michel Melkonian 1 ; Myriam Raybaut 1 ; Antoine Godard 1 ; Emmanuel Rosencher 1 ; Michel Lefebvre 1

1 ONERA – Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales, B.P. 72, 92322 Châtillon cedex, France 
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Antoine Berrou; Jean-Michel Melkonian; Myriam Raybaut; Antoine Godard; Emmanuel Rosencher; Michel Lefebvre. Specific architectures for optical parametric oscillators. Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 8 (2007) no. 10, pp. 1162-1173. doi : 10.1016/j.crhy.2007.09.012. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/physique/articles/10.1016/j.crhy.2007.09.012/

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