Experimental demonstration of five-beam-pumped optical parametric amplification

Opt Lett. 2013 Sep 1;38(17):3319-21. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.003319.

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrated optical parametric amplification with five pumps coming from two different oscillators. By spreading those partially mutually incoherent pumps at 532 nm over different phase-matching directions around a signal at 725 nm, we obtained a pumps-to-signal efficiency of 27%.