Optical Second Harmonic Generation in a Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator
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We are developing high quality factor whispering gallery mode resonator (WGMR) disks for use in quantum information experiments. Our polished lithium niobate disks achieved a quality factor on the order of 10. We report the use of Type-I noncritical phase matching in a lithium niobate whispering gallery mode resonator disk to produce optical second harmonic generation at λ = 532nm. This process can be used to create both squeezed light and a single photon source, which are important steps toward quantum memory scheme.
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