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Parametric Optics

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Applied Solid State Physics

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss three examples of parametric field interactions which have recently become important in optics: optical parametric oscillation, parametric fluorescence, and the stimulated Raman effect. By a parametric interaction we refer to a process in which the application of a field Ep leads to regenerative amplification of two fields Es and Ei with a phase relation of the form

$$psi _{p} - ({\psi _{s}} + {\psi _{i}}) = \pi /2$$
((1))

maintained among the fields. The quantities Ep,s.i may in principle represent any classical fields. In quantum mechanics the elementary parametric process is an interaction of three bosons, e.g., the annihilation of a photon and the creation of a photon and an optical or acoustic phonon as in the stimulated Raman or Brillouin effect, the creation of a photon and a polariton as in the Raman effect involving an infra red active lattice vibration, or simply the creation of two photons as in optical parametric oscillation.

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Giordmaine, J.A. (1970). Parametric Optics. In: Low, W., Schieber, M. (eds) Applied Solid State Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1854-5_1

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