Efficient generation of highly squeezed light and second harmonic wave with periodically poled MgO:LiNbO_3

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates efficient generation of highly squeezed light and second harmonic waves using periodically poled MgO:LiNbO3, achieving significant squeezing and high conversion efficiency in a compact setup.

Contribution

It presents a novel implementation of PPMgLN crystals for simultaneous generation of squeezed light and second harmonics with high efficiency and low noise.

Findings

Achieved -7.60 dB squeezing at 860 nm.

Generated 400 mW second harmonic at 430 nm with 70% efficiency.

Utilized PPMgLN crystal to leverage large nonlinear coefficient.

Abstract

We report on effective generation of continuous-wave squeezed light and second harmonics with a periodically poled MgO:LiNbO$_{\mathrm{3}}$ (PPMgLN) crystal which enables us to utilize the large nonlinear optical coefficient $d_{\mathrm{33}}$. We achieved the squeezing level of $-7.60 \pm 0.15$dB at 860 nm by utilizing a subthreshol optical parametric oscillator with a PPMgLN crystal. We also generated 400 mW of second harmonics at 430 nm from 570 mW of fundamental waves with 70% of conversion efficiency by using a PPMgLN crystal inside an external cavity.