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[[Image:IR Optical Parametric Oscillator.JPG|thumb|300 px|right|Infrared optical parametric oscillator]]
An '''optical parametric oscillator''' (OPO) is an [[parametric oscillator]] which oscillates at optical frequencies. It converts an input [[laser]] wave (called "pump") into two output waves of lower frequency (<math>\omega_s, \omega_i</math>) by means of [[nonlinear optics | nonlinear optical interaction]]. The sum of the output waves frequencies is equal to the input wave frequency: <math>\omega_s + \omega_i=\omega_p</math>. For historic reasons, the two output waves are called "signal" and "idler". A special case is the degenerate OPO, when the output frequency is one-half the pump frequency, <math>\omega_s=\omega_i=\omega_p/2</math>.
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== Quantum properties of the generated light beams ==
[[Image:OPO Crystals.jpg|thumb|300 px|right|[[Potassium titanyl phosphate|KTP]] crystals in an OPO]]
The OPO is the physical system most widely used to generate [[squeezed]] states and [[entangled]] states of light in the continuous variables regime. Many demonstrations of quantum information protocols for continuous variables were realized using OPO's<ref>J. Jing, J. Zhang, Y. Yan, F. Zhao, C. Xie, and K. Peng, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 167903 (2003).</ref><ref>S. Koike, H. Takahashi, H. Yonezawa, N. Takei, S. L. Braunstein, T. Aoki, and A. Furusawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 060504 (2006).</ref><ref>N. Takei, H. Yonezawa, T. Aoki, and A. Furusawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220502 (2005).</ref><ref>S. Koike, H. Takahashi, H. Yonezawa, N. Takei, S. L. Braunstein, T. Aoki, and A. Furusawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 060504 (2006).</ref>.
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