摘要
The molecular wake-assisted interaction between two collinear femotosecond laser pulses is investigated in air,which leads to the generation of a controllable 1.8 mJ super-continuum pulse with an elongated self-guided channel due to the cross-phase modulation of the impulsively aligned diatomic molecules in air. For two parallel launched femtosecond laser pulses with a certain spatial separation,controllable attraction and repulsion of the pulses are observed due to the counter-balance among molecular wakes,Kerr and plasma effects,where the molecular wakes show a longer interaction distance than the others to control the propagation of the intense ultrashort laser pulses.
The molecular wake-assisted interaction between two collinear femotosecond laser pulses is investigated in air,which leads to the generation of a controllable 1.8 mJ super-continuum pulse with an elongated self-guided channel due to the cross-phase modulation of the impulsively aligned diatomic molecules in air. For two parallel launched femtosecond laser pulses with a certain spatial separation,controllable attraction and repulsion of the pulses are observed due to the counter-balance among molecular wakes,Kerr and plasma effects,where the molecular wakes show a longer interaction distance than the others to control the propagation of the intense ultrashort laser pulses.
作者
CAI Hua,WU Jian,LU PeiFen,TONG YuQi,YANG Xuan,BAI XueShi,LI Hao,PAN HaiFeng & ZENG HePing State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy,East China Normal University,Shanghai 200062,China
基金
partly funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10525416,10804032,and 10990101)
the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB806005)
Projectsfrom Shanghai Science and Technology Commission (Grant Nos.08ZR1407100 and 09QA1402000)
Shanghai Educational Development Foundation (Grant No. 2008CG29)
