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| Author(s): |
Marcelo Martinelli
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2002-02-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Paulo Alberto Nussenzveig;
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz;
Antonio Zelaquett Khoury;
Jose Roberto Leite;
Carlos Henrique Monken
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| Advisor: | Paulo Alberto Nussenzveig |
| Abstract | |
We present in this work the project and construction of an Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO), showing the quantum behavior in the intensity correlation of signal and idler beams, generated from a 532 nm pump. We have also studied the quantum noise compression in the pump beam reflected from an OPO cavity, obtaining 38 % of noise reduction below the vacuum fluctuations in the quadrature of a 1064 nm beam coming from a Nd:YAG laser. Finally, we observed the pattern formation in the output beams for transverse degenerate cavities (confocal and concentric) and we show, for the first time to our knowledge, the transverse multimode behavior in the quantum correlation of a confocal OPO. (AU) | |