Power Scaling of Enhancement Cavities for Nonlinear Optics by Ioachim Pupeza
English | PDF | 2012 | 106 Pages | ISBN : 1461440998 | 2.9 MB
Enhancement cavities are passive optical resonators in which continuous-wave laser radiation or pulses of a frequency comb are coherently overlapped, allowing for a power and intensity scaling of up to several orders of magnitude. A prominent application is the table-top generation of bright, laser-like radiation in spectral regions where direct laser action is inefficient or not available at all, via intracavity nonlinear optical processes. However, to exploit the full capacity of this technique further progress is needed.