Femtosecond laser induced plasma diffraction gratings in air as photonic devices for high intensity laser applications Academic Article

abstract

• The creation of volume plasma density gratings in air by temporally overlapped high-intensity IR femtosecond laser pulses is demonstrated experimentally. Through the diffraction of various probe beams the plasma grating properties are recovered including its thickness and refractive index modulation, as well as its decay dynamics. The diffraction properties of these plasma photonic devices suggest that they can be used in applications involving high intensity lasers, such as filamentation, where no physical objects can be placed in the path of the laser beams. 2009 American Institute of Physics.

authors

• Tzortzakis, Stylianos

published proceedings

• APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Suntsov, S., Abdollahpour, D., Papazoglou, D. G., & Tzortzakis, S.

citation count

• 41

complete list of authors

• Suntsov, S||Abdollahpour, D||Papazoglou, DG||Tzortzakis, S

publication date

• June 2009

publisher

• AIP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Applied Physics Letters  Journal

keywords

• Diffraction Gratings
• High-speed Optical Techniques
• Plasma Density
• Plasma Devices
• Plasma Light Propagation
• Refractive Index

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1063/1.3157908

start page

• 251104

end page

• 251104

volume

• 94

issue

• 25

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3157908