CA978629A - Optical radiation frequency converter and method - Google Patents

Optical radiation frequency converter and method

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CA978629A
CA978629A CA155,675A CA155675A CA978629A CA 978629 A CA978629 A CA 978629A CA 155675 A CA155675 A CA 155675A CA 978629 A CA978629 A CA 978629A
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frequency converter
optical radiation
radiation frequency
optical
converter
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Stephen E. Harris
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
    • G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
    • G02F1/35—Non-linear optics
    • G02F1/353—Frequency conversion, i.e. wherein a light beam is generated with frequency components different from those of the incident light beams
    • G02F1/3534—Three-wave interaction, e.g. sum-difference frequency generation
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
    • G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
    • G02F1/35—Non-linear optics
    • G02F1/355—Non-linear optics characterised by the materials used

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Nonlinear Science (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
  • Stabilization Of Oscillater, Synchronisation, Frequency Synthesizers (AREA)
  • Aerials With Secondary Devices (AREA)
CA155,675A 1971-11-11 1972-11-06 Optical radiation frequency converter and method Expired CA978629A (en)

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US19788971A 1971-11-11 1971-11-11

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US (1) US3795819A (de)
JP (1) JPS4859852A (de)
CA (1) CA978629A (de)
DE (1) DE2255340A1 (de)
FR (1) FR2159494A1 (de)
GB (1) GB1407459A (de)
NL (1) NL7215244A (de)

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US3914618A (en) * 1974-01-28 1975-10-21 Stephen E Harris Two-photon pumped frequency converter and method
US4063105A (en) * 1976-06-24 1977-12-13 Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Method of and apparatus for generating tunable coherent radiation by noncollinear phase-matched sum-difference frequency optical mixing
US4058739A (en) * 1976-11-30 1977-11-15 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Method and apparatus for phase matching by adjustment of the fundamental frequencies
US4095121A (en) * 1977-04-14 1978-06-13 The United States Of America As Represented By The United States Department Of Energy Resonantly enhanced four-wave mixing
US4128772A (en) * 1977-12-29 1978-12-05 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Generation of tunable far-infrared radiation
US4239995A (en) * 1979-02-27 1980-12-16 Westinghouse Electric Corp. Metal vapor Raman frequency shifter
US4292526A (en) * 1979-06-21 1981-09-29 The United States Of America As Represented By The United States Department Of Energy Isotropically sensitive optical filter employing atomic resonance transitions
US4717828A (en) * 1985-09-26 1988-01-05 Westinghouse Electric Corp. Laser communication system
US4829597A (en) * 1986-09-29 1989-05-09 The Aerospace Corporation Low solar background, high sensitivity active atomic resonance filter for underwater laser communications
US4968121A (en) * 1988-12-07 1990-11-06 Hughes Aircraft Company Hermetically sealed apparatus and method for maintaining crystals at a controlled operating temperature
US5095212A (en) * 1990-07-20 1992-03-10 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Air Force High-efficiency photon detector
CN1039055C (zh) * 1994-12-28 1998-07-08 浙江大学 测量半球空间光辐射的色觉传感器
US5920415A (en) * 1995-11-21 1999-07-06 The University Of Rochester Transmission of optical signals

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FR1417338A (fr) * 1964-10-02 1965-11-12 Csf Perfectionnements aux systèmes à pompage optique
US3371265A (en) * 1966-12-28 1968-02-27 Hughes Aircraft Co Apparatus producing stimulated raman emission
US3720882A (en) * 1970-08-03 1973-03-13 Research Corp Parametric frequency conversion

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JPS4859852A (de) 1973-08-22
US3795819A (en) 1974-03-05
GB1407459A (en) 1975-09-24
DE2255340A1 (de) 1973-05-17
NL7215244A (de) 1973-05-15
FR2159494A1 (de) 1973-06-22

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