Rotational Quantum Beat Lasing Without Inversion

Autor: Misha Ivanov, Felipe Morales, Olga Smirnova, Stefan Haessler, Maria Richter, Marianna Lytova, Michael Spanner
Přispěvatelé: Max-Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), University of Ottawa [Ottawa], National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (LOA), École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA Paris)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Humboldt University of Berlin, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
Physics::Optics
Population inversion
01 natural sciences
nitrogen
law.invention
Physics - Atomic Physics
law
Ionization
Quantum system
Physics::Atomic Physics
quantum optics
Stimulated emission
Quantum
[PHYS]Physics [physics]
Physics
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]
education.field_of_study
population inversion
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-ATOM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atomic Physics [physics.atom-ph]
Atomic and Molecular Physics
and Optics

Electronic
Optical and Magnetic Materials

Europe
Excited state
Femtosecond
Atomic physics
Coherence (physics)
Physics - Optics
stimulated emission
Population
interference
FOS: Physical sciences
quantum interference phenomena
rotational states
010309 optics
Superposition principle
Quantum beats
[PHYS.QPHY]Physics [physics]/Quantum Physics [quant-ph]
quantum beat spectra
0103 physical sciences
Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters
010306 general physics
education
quantum system
excited states
optical pumping
sociology
laser beams
Laser
molecule-photon collisions
absorption
lasers
Optics (physics.optics)
Zdroj: Optica
Optica, Optical Society of America-OSA Publishing, 2020, 7 (6), pp.586-592. ⟨10.1364/OPTICA.390665⟩
ISSN: 2334-2536
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.390665⟩
Popis: We show that lasing without inversion arises naturally during propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in air. It is triggered by the combination of molecular ionization and molecular alignment, both unavoidable in intense light fields.
High Intensity Lasers and High Field Phenomena 2020, High-field Re-scattering Physics, Relativistic Nonlinear Phenomena, Intense Pulse Propagation and Filamentation (HM1B) Session, November 16–20, 2020, Washington, DC, United States
Series: OSA Technical Digest
Databáze: OpenAIRE