• DocumentCode
    1770213
  • Title

    Helical filaments

  • Author

    Barbieri, Nicola ; Hosseinimakarem, Zahra ; Lim, Khan ; Durand, Magali ; Webb, Benjamin ; Bradford, Joshua ; McKee, Erik ; Bodnar, Nathan ; Shah, Lawrence ; Baudelet, Matthieu ; Johnson, Eric ; Richardson, Mark

  • Author_Institution
    Townes Laser Inst., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate the use of non-diffracting beams to control and organize multiple filamentation in air. Here, a pair of laser filaments which twist about the optical axis during propagation is obtained using a Bessel beam superposition.
  • Keywords
    Bessel functions; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; light propagation; optical modulation; phase modulation; Bessel beam superposition; helical filaments; multiple filamentation; nondiffracting beams; optical axis; spatial phase modulation; Electrodes; Laser beams; Laser theory; Optical diffraction; Optical imaging; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988802