Jha, Sudhanshu S. (1971) Principles of Raman lasers and parametric amplifiers Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy - Part A: Physical Sciences, 37A (3). pp. 219-227. ISSN 0073-6767
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Abstract
With the advent of powerful lasers at selected frequencies, it has now become possible to generate new frequencies by stimulating Raman scattered waves of these light sources. In a medium with high second-order non-linear optical susceptibility, new frequencies are also generated by parametric conversion. Principles of stimulated Raman scattering and the three-wave parametric interaction in a non-linear medium are presented and compared with the physical process involved in the operation of a conventional laser. As two recent examples of tunable devices based on these principles, the case of lithium niobate (LiNbO3), where a polariton mode is excited, and the case of n-type InSb in a magnetic field, where an electron is excited to an empty spin-level, are discussed. The device using LiNbOs crystal is capable of generating tunable infra-red sources from 50 fl to 250 µ whereas lnSb device can generate tunable sources in the range 6-13 µ.
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