An all‐acoustic parametric amplifier in superfluid helium
作者:
D. R. Wright,
J. S. Foster,
B. Hadimioglu,
C. F. Quate,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Physics
(AIP Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 68,
issue 9
页码: 4438-4445
ISSN:0021-8979
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1063/1.346194
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Studies of nonlinear acoustic interactions in superfluid helium at temperatures below 0.2 K have culminated in the construction of an all‐acoustic parametric amplifier at gigahertz frequencies. This device represents the shortest wavelength parametric amplifier ever made, with signal wavelengths shorter than 1000 A˚ and pump wavelengths shorter than 600 A˚. In the experiment, plane waves are mixed at a predefined angle in the superfluid helium. Two gain regimes are observed. The first regime is a noncollinear phase‐matched process, in which the signal phonon stimulates decay of the pump phonon to create gain at the signal frequency. The second regime is a four‐phonon collinear process, in which gain on the signal is created by the second harmonic of the pump. This four‐phonon process is unusual and is shown to be a combination of three‐phonon processes wherein the lack of conservation of energy and momentum in one process is mostly compensated by the other.
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