lasing condition

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1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 4019-4022 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. C. Marlow
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2020 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 11011
Author(s):  
Laura Mércade ◽  
Leopoldo L. Martin ◽  
Amadeu Griol ◽  
Daniel Navarro-Urrios ◽  
Alejandro Martínez

In this work we show that a silicon optomechanical crystal cavity can be used as an optomechanical oscillator when driven to the phonon lasing condition with a blue-detuned laser. The optomechanical cavity is designed to have a breathing like mode vibrating at Ωm/2π =3.897 GHz in a full phononic bandgap. Our measurements show that the first harmonic displays a phase noise of -100 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz. Stronger bluedetuned driving leads eventually to the formation of an optomechanical frequency comb, with lines spaced by the mechanical frequency. The measured phase noise grows up with the harmonic number, as in classical harmonic mixing. We present real-time measurements of the comb waveform and show that it can be adjusted to a theoretical model recently presented. Our results suggest that silicon optomechanical cavities can play a role in integrated microwave photonics.





2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya V. Doronin ◽  
Alexander A. Zyablovsky ◽  
Evgeny S. Andrianov ◽  
Alexander A. Pukhov ◽  
Yurii E. Lozovik ◽  
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AbstractUsually, the cavity is considered an intrinsic part of laser design to enable coherent emission. For different types of cavities, it is assumed that the light coherence is achieved by different ways. We show that regardless of the type of cavity, the lasing condition is universal and is determined by the ratio of the width of the atomic spectrum to the product of the number of atoms and the spontaneous radiation rate in the laser structure. We demonstrate that cavity does not play a crucial role in lasing since it merely decreases the threshold by increasing the photon emission rate thanks to the Purcell effect. A threshold reduction can be achieved in a cavity-free structure by tuning the local density of states of the electromagnetic field. This paves the way for the design of laser devices based on cavity-free systems.



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Martin H. Weik
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