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A self-tuning optical resonator

arXiv:1707.09085 · doi:10.1364/OL.42.005298

Abstract

We demonstrate a nonlinear optical resonator that tunes itself onto resonance with an input beam. In a monolithic Fabry-Perot cavity implemented in rubidium-doped periodically-poled potassium titanyl phosphate, an intensity-dependent refractive index produces line-pulling by multiple free-spectral ranges (FSRs). In this condition, the cavity passively maintains optical resonance in the face of FSR-scale excursions of the drive laser frequency: when one resonant operating-point becomes unstable, the resonator rapidly transitions to another resonant operating point. We demonstrate stable second-harmonic generation with no active feedback to laser or cavity. The self-tuning effect appears to be supported by a very strong, previously unreported optical nonlinearity.

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