A phase-locked frequency divide-by-three optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled lithium niobate

Author

Douillet, A. ; Zondy, J.-J. ; Santarelli, G. ; Clairon, A.

Author_Institution

Obs. de Paris, Meudon, France

fYear

2000

fDate

14-19 May 2000

Firstpage

685

Lastpage

686

Abstract

We report on the operation of a 3/spl omega//spl rarr/2/spl omega/+/spl omega/ subharmonic doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator (DRO) as an accurate 3:1 phase-locked optical divider of the frequency of a diode laser at 355 THz (843 nm). A fractional frequency stability of 2/spl times/10/sup -17/ of the division process has been achieved for 100 s integration time.

Keywords

frequency dividers; frequency standards; laser frequency stability; lithium compounds; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric oscillators; optical phase locked loops; optical phase matching; 843 nm; LiNbO/sub 3/; diode laser frequency; fractional frequency stability; frequency standard; optical frequency measurement chains; periodically poled lithium niobate; phase matching; phase-locked frequency divide-by-three; phase-locked optical divider; subharmonic doubly resonant OPO; Frequency conversion; Gratings; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical frequency conversion; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Radio frequency; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Precision Electromagnetic Measurements Digest, 2000 Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW, Australia

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5744-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CPEM.2000.851196

Filename

851196