Femtosecond filamentation and pulse compression in the wake of molecular alignment
Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 22, pp. 2593-2595 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.33.002593
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Abstract
We numerically demonstrate that femtosecond filamentation in a molecular gas can be controlled in the wake of molecular alignment following impulsive rotational Raman excitation with a weak pump pulse. The succeeding filamentation dynamics of the collinearly propagating probe pulse is significantly influenced by the spatiotemporally modulated refractive index at the revivals of molecular alignment. The length of the filament generated by the probe pulse can be efficiently increased to obtain an ultrabroad spectrum and a few-cycle pulse via self-compression by tuning its delay to match the molecular alignment revivals.
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OCIS Codes
(260.5950) Physical optics : Self-focusing
(320.7110) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
(020.2649) Atomic and molecular physics : Strong field laser physics
ToC Category:
Ultrafast Optics
History
Original Manuscript: September 8, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: September 26, 2008
Published: November 7, 2008
Citation
Jian Wu, Hua Cai, Heping Zeng, and Arnaud Couairon, "Femtosecond filamentation and pulse compression in the wake of molecular alignment," Opt. Lett. 33, 2593-2595 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-33-22-2593
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