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Power Scaling of Enhancement Cavities for Nonlinear Optics

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This chapter introduces the reader to the work presented in this thesis. It elucidates the motivation of enhancing optical nonlinear processes in passive resonators, provides an overview of the results obtained during this doctorate work and presents the structure of the thesis.

Jedes Wekzeug trägt den Geist in sich, aus dem heraus es geschaffen worden ist. Werner Heisenberg.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The following historical review is largely based on Walther’s book Was ist Licht? [1].

  2. 2.

    In the second half of the seventeenth century, Newton developed a particle-based model for light. However, his theory lost ground to Huygens’ wave theory, which could explain most of the experiments of that time.

  3. 3.

    During the time of this doctorate work, the scientific community celebrated the 50 years anniversary of the first experimental demonstration of the laser by Th. H. Maiman in 1960.

  4. 4.

    A detailed description of the mode of operation of the laser would exceed the frame of this section. A textbook introduction is given in Siegman’s book Lasers [2].

  5. 5.

    This can be either satisfied by a single-frequency continuous-wave (CW) laser, or by a laser emitting several frequencies with a fixed phase relationship, which is the case of a mode-locked laser generating pulses. Since CW operation can be regarded as a special case of a mode-locked laser, the following discussion of pulsed EC’s includes the CW case.

  6. 6.

    Note that multiple pulses can be stored in the EC in the same manner, if the cavity roundtrip time is a multiple of the pulse repetition period.

  7. 7.

    The task of coupling out the new frequencies from the cavity strongly depends on the participating wavelengths.

  8. 8.

    A more detailed overview of EC’s for HHG is given in Appendix 7.1.

  9. 9.

    A number of further exciting applications are summarized in Refs. [4, 5].

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Pupeza, I. (2012). Introduction. In: Power Scaling of Enhancement Cavities for Nonlinear Optics. Springer Theses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4100-7_1

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