Frontiers in Optics

Photonic Crystals Acting on Instabilities and Squeezed States in OPOs

M. Moreno, Miguel Ángel García March, Damià Gomila, Roberta Zambrini

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations

Abstract

Optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) are known to induce non-classical spatial correlations in the transverse profile of emitted light beams. We show how intracavity photonic crystals modify their stability as well as quantum fluctuations improving squeezed states.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2009.fthi6

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