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Optical parametric oscillatorsDunn et al., 2021
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- Dunn M
- Ebrahimzadeh M
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- Advances in Lasers and Applications
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The basic principles behind the operation of optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) have been known since the early days of nonlinear optics, and many different configurations were explored by the early investigators. The sum of the momenta of the signal and idler photons …
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