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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 1977
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard L Abrams, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);
Amnon Yariv, San Marino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ; H03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
332-751 ; 307 883 ; 325430 ;
Abstract
In the disclosed parametric frequency converter a dc electric field is utilized to remove spatial inversion symmetry of NH.sub.2 D gas molecules contained in a Stark cell. Simultaneous introduction into the Stark cell of a laser beam at a frequency f.sub.1 (e.g., corresponding to about 10.6 .mu.m) and microwaves at a frequency f.sub.2 (e.g., about 4.1 GHz) produces resonantly enhanced parametric mixing of the frequencies f.sub.1 and f.sub.2, resulting in the generation of a laser beam at the difference frequency f.sub.3 = f.sub.1 - f.sub.2.