• DocumentCode
    2265649
  • Title

    Demonstration of two-pump photorefractive gain in a BaTiO3 crystal for realizing a whitelight cavity

  • Author

    Pati, G.S. ; Salit, M. ; Salit, K. ; Shahriar, M.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrated double-peaked gain in a BaTiO3 crystal using two non-degenerate pump beams. This shows that the negative dispersion necessary for a whitelight cavity for gravitational wave detection can be produced with photorefractive crystals.
  • Keywords
    barium compounds; optical dispersion; photorefractive effect; BaTiO3; BaTiO3 crystal; negative dispersion; nondegenerate pump beams; photorefractive crystals; two-pump photorefractive gain; whitelight cavity; Crystals; Dispersion; Frequency; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Mirrors; Optical interferometry; Photorefractive effect; Photorefractive materials; Probes; 020.1670; 060.1810;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4572769