Energy transfer between laser filaments in liquid methanol. Academic Article

abstract

• We demonstrate energy exchange between two filament-forming femtosecond laser beams in liquid methanol. Our results are consistent with those of previous works documenting coupling between filaments in air; in addition, we identify an unreported phenomenon in which the direction of energy exchange oscillates at increments in the relative pulse delay equal to an optical period (2.6 fs). Energy transfer from one filament to another may be used in remote sensing and spectroscopic applications utilizing femtosecond laser filaments in water and air.

authors

• Schuessler, Hans
• Sokolov, Alexei

published proceedings

• Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Strycker, B. D., Springer, M., Trendafilova, C., Hua, X., Zhi, M., Kolomenskii, A. A., ... Sokolov, A. V.

citation count

• 13

complete list of authors

• Strycker, BD||Springer, M||Trendafilova, C||Hua, X||Zhi, M||Kolomenskii, AA||Schroeder, H||Strohaber, J||Schuessler, HA||Kattawar, GW||Sokolov, AV

publication date

• January 2012

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5102 Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics
• 7 Affordable And Clean Energy

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/OL.37.000016

start page

• 16

end page

• 18

volume

• 37

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.37.000016

user-defined tag

• 7 Affordable and Clean Energy