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Phys. Rev. A 65, 033811 (2002) [6 pages]

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

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M. Bache1,2,*, P. Lodahl1,2,†, A. V. Mamaev1,‡, 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

Received 6 November 2000; revised 13 August 2001; published 8 February 2002

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.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.033811
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.65.033811
PACS:
42.65.Ky

*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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