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AM-to-PM conversion in a resonant microwave optical rectification detector.

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A LiNbO3-loaded microwave cavity pumped with weakly AM-modulated 30 fs optical pulses was used as a platform to investigate AM-to-PM conversion in the optical rectification process. Theoretical treatment of AM-to-PM… Click to show full abstract

A LiNbO3-loaded microwave cavity pumped with weakly AM-modulated 30 fs optical pulses was used as a platform to investigate AM-to-PM conversion in the optical rectification process. Theoretical treatment of AM-to-PM conversion (i.e., peak-induced electrical phase deviation βi due to optical power modulation with index m) suggests that the dominant mechanism is self-group-velocity modulation due to χ(3) and cascaded χ(2) processes with a value of δ=βi/m=-151  dB, linearly dependent on the optical power at intensities of 6×1010  W/m2 in a 40 mm long LiNbO3 crystal. This is in stark contrast to p-i-n photodiodes which can exhibit an AM-to-PM conversion gain δ>0  dB. In this experiment, we measured values of δ for a resonant optical rectification detector using typical mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser pulses (100 MHz, 30 fs, Pavg≈100  mW) and found an instrumentation-limited lower bound of δ≈-43.5  dB, independent of the optical power.

Keywords: rectification detector; optical power; optical rectification; conversion

Journal Title: Optics letters
Year Published: 2017

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