Generation of nonlinear vortex precursors

YY Chen, XL Feng, C Liu - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
We numerically study the propagation of a few-cycle pulse carrying orbital angular
momentum (OAM) through a dense atomic system. Nonlinear precursors consisting of high …

Cw conical emission: first comparison and agreement between theory and experiment

JF Valley, G Khitrova, HM Gibbs, JW Grantham… - Physical review letters, 1990 - APS
Experimentally observed near-field and far-field spatial profiles, frequency spectra, and cone
angles are in good agreement with numerical computations of a theory that includes …

Supercontinuum sources in a high-power femtosecond laserpulse propagating in liquids and gases

VP Kandidov, IS Golubtsov, OG Kosareva - Quantum Electronics, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
The mechanism of supercontinuum generation and the spatial distribution of its sources
during the propagation of a high-power femtosecond laser pulse in liquids and gases are …

Cherenkov-type phase matching in bulk KDP crystal

V Vaičaitis - Optics communications, 2002 - Elsevier
The conical second harmonic emission from a bulk KDP crystal was detected and
interpreted in terms of Cherenkov-type phase matching. In contrast to the models describing …

Parallelizable, bidirectional method for simulating optical-signal propagation

D Hollenbeck, CD Cantrell - Journal of lightwave technology, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We have developed and tested a parallelizable, bidirectional (PB) numerical algorithm for
the simulation of propagating laser pulse trains and oppositely propagating laser beams or …

Directional coherent light via intensity-induced sideband emission

AJ Traverso, C O'brien, BH Hokr… - Light: Science & …, 2017 - nature.com
We introduce a unique technique for generating directional coherent emissions that could
be utilized to create coherent sources in a wide range of frequencies from the extreme …

Conical emission in β-barium borate under femtosecond pumping with phase matching angles away from second harmonic generation

SA Ali, PB Bisht, A Nautiyal, V Shukla, KS Bindra… - JOSA B, 2010 - opg.optica.org
The broadband parametric upconverted conical emission (CE) has been investigated in a β-
barium borate crystal with phase matching angles away from second harmonic generation …

Resonant nonstationary amplification of polychromatic laser pulses and conical emission in an optically dense ensemble of neon metastable atoms

SN Bagayev, VS Egorov, IB Mekhov, PV Moroshkin… - Physical Review A, 2003 - APS
Experimental and numerical investigation of single-beam and pump-probe interaction with a
resonantly absorbing dense extended medium under strong and weak field-matter coupling …

Failures of the four-wave mixing model for cone emission

RC Hart, L You, A Gallagher, J Cooper - Optics communications, 1994 - Elsevier
Strontium vapor is pumped by an unfocused, single-mode, pulsed dye laser tuned near the
461 nm resonance transition. With blue laser detuning the previously reported red-shifted …

Self-focused light propagation in a fully saturable medium: Experiment

ML Dowell, RC Hart, A Gallagher, J Cooper - Physical Review A, 1996 - APS
We report observations of self-focusing and filamentation, ie, the formation of one or more
self-trapped beams, of∼ 3 ns laser pulses in strontium (Sr) vapor. The experimental …