Nonlinear optics and crystalline whispering gallery mode cavities.

We demonstrate parametric frequency doubling in a whispering gallery cavity made of periodically poled lithium niobate. This demonstration is an example of utility of such crystalline optical whispering gallery resonators with very high Q factors, which we have fabricated.

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