Comptes rendus Académie des sciences, Physique, tome 8, fasc 10, Décembre 2007 optical parametric sources for the infrared... (Bilingue)

Infrared (2-12 µm) solid-state laser sources: a review. Continous-wave mid-infrared laser sources based on difference frequency generation. High repetition rate mid-infrared laser source. Specific architectures for optical parametrics oscillators. Large intrinsic birefringence in zinc-blende based artificial semiconductors. Parametric fluorescence in semiconductor waveguides. Parametric generation of twin photons in vertical triple microcavities. Fresnel phase matching: a universal phase matching scheme.