Controlling Femtosecond Laser Filaments via Quasi-Hermite Gaussian Beam Modes


KAYA N., KAYA G., Kolomenski A., Schuessler H.

Acta Physica Polonica A, cilt.141, sa.3, ss.204-209, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 141 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.12693/aphyspola.141.204
  • Dergi Adı: Acta Physica Polonica A
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Chemical Abstracts Core, Compendex, INSPEC
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.204-209
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: beam modes, filamentation, nonlinear optics
  • Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We present the possibilities of controlling and organizing femtosecond laser filaments and white-light formation via generating quasi-Hermite Gaussian beam modes in water. The quasi-Hermite Gaussian modes are created as transverse structures with different intensity and phase distributions by modulating the spatial phase front in the incident Gaussian beam. We have created phase masks on a spatial light modulator to produce desired beam profiles such as quasi-Hermite Gaussian beam modes. By creating the quasi-Hermite Gaussian beam modes from the incident Gaussian mode, we have shown that multiple filaments and white-light generation patterns can be controlled and organized depending on the created beam mode profile. Since only one initial beam was employed, the beam and the created side patterns were mutually coherent, which enables their use for pump-probe spectroscopy and other experiments requiring mutual coherence of the beams employed.