• DocumentCode
    2246194
  • Title

    Observation of energy exchange between intersecting filament-forming beams freely propagating in air

  • Author

    Bernstein, A.C. ; McCormick, M.W. ; Sanders, J.C. ; Ditmire, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate two-beam coupling between crossed filament-producing beams freely propagating in atmosphere, producing energy transfers of 10%, controllable by a relative delay of +/-20 fs. Prospects of filament regeneration and control will be discussed.
  • Keywords
    atmospheric light propagation; laser beams; multiwave mixing; energy exchange; filament-forming beams; two-beam coupling; Chirp; Delay; Energy exchange; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Raman scattering; Ultrafast optics; (010.0010) Atmospheric and oceanic optics; (190.0190) Nonlinear Optics; (260.7120) Ultrafast phenomena;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4571873