Mitigation of thermal blooming and diffraction effects with high-power laser beams

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 719-724

  Schmitt, Mark J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; IONIZATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; THERMAL BLOOMING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

OPTICAL PULSES;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0037835850     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.000719     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. B. D. McVey, "3-D simulations of free-electron laser physics," Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 250, 449-455 (1986).
2. M. Mlejnek, E. M. Wright, and J. V. Moloney, "Dynamic spatial replenishment of femtosecond pulses propagating in air," Opt. Lett. 23, 382-384 (1998).
3. N. Aközbek, C. M. Bowden, and S. L. Chin, "Propagation dynamics of ultra-short high-power laser pulses in air: supercontinuum generation and transverse ring formation," J. Mod. Opt. 49, 475-486 (2002).
4. S. Tzortzakis, L. Bergé, A. Couairon, M. Franco, B. Prade, and A. Mysyrowicz, "Breakup and fusion of self-guided femtosecond light pulses in air," Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5470-5473 (2001).
5. J. F. Schonfeld, "Instability in saturated full-field compensation for thermal blooming," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 9, 1794-1799 (1992).
6. F. G. Smith, "Atmospheric propagation of radiation," in The Infrared and Electro-Optical Systems Handbook, Vol. 2, J. S. Accetta and D. L. Shurnaker, eds. (SPIE Press, Bellingham, Wash., 1993), p. 88.
7. -2)/2=1/2.3.
8. 0(1-αz).
9. wind, one is in the convection dominated regime.
10. R. W. Boyd, Nonlinear Optics (Academic, San Diego, Calif., 1992), Eq. 4.1.15.
11. -18 at 1.06 μm; see Handbook of Nonlinear Optics (Marcel Dekker, Monticello, N.Y., 1996).
12. atm for air are taken from the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 68th ed. (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 1987).
13. This extinction value taken from a FASCODE run for mid-latitude summer with 23-km visibility assuming a Beer's law dependence.
14. L. V. Keldysh, "Ionization in the field of a strong electromagnetic wave," Sov. Phys. JETP 20, 1307-1314 (1965).
15. D. S. Clark and N. J. Fisch, "Regime for a self-ionizing Raman laser amplifier," Phys. Plasmas 9, 2772-2780 (2002).