Abstract

The mutual influence of second-harmonic generation and nondegenerate downconversion inside the same cavity is studied. The threshold behavior and the stability of a semiclassical solution with all four modes oscillating resonantly is investigated. It is shown that under certain conditions the self-pulsing instability that occurs in second-harmonic generation is absent in the combined system. The squeezing spectra for the quadrature-phase amplitudes in the second harmonic and the fundamental, as well as the photon statistics in the downconverted modes, are derived analytically. As one of the various nonclassical features of this system, the second harmonic is found to exhibit excellent noise suppression at very large frequencies, with the frequency component of best squeezing being tunable by the pump parameter. The intricate interaction of the two nonlinear processes can give rise to twin beams of correlated photons, with sub-Poissonian statistics in each beam. These results are contrasted with the results for each nonlinear process by itself.

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