Recent advances in air lasing: a perspective from quantum coherence

L Yuan, Y Liu, J Yao, Y Cheng - Advanced Quantum …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The research topic of air lasing is of fundamental and practical importance, which has grown
rapidly in the past decade. Air lasing, or a laser‐like emission from air species including …

Quantum effects in the cooperative scattering of light by atomic clouds

L Pucci, A Roy, TS do Espirito Santo, R Kaiser… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
Scattering of classical light by atomic clouds induces photon-mediated effective long-range
interactions between the atoms and leads to cooperative effects even at low atomic …

An improved arctangent algorithm based on phase-locked loop for heterodyne detection system

CH Yan, TF Wang, YY Li, T Lv, SS Wu - Chinese Physics B, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an ameliorated arctangent algorithm based on phase-locked loop for digital
Doppler signal processing, utilized within the heterodyne detection system. We define the …

Simple approach to high-fidelity tunable narrow-band pulse generation

CW Ballmann, GI Petrov, VV Yakovlev - Optics Letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Tunable narrow-band short-pulse coherent emission can be generated by the optical
parametric amplification of a seeded continuous wave (CW) laser. However, the residual …

Resonantly enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

GI Petrov, VV Yakovlev - Multiphoton Microscopy in the …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Resonant coherent Raman spectroscopy based on electronic transitions is known for over
40 years to provide chemically specific information from molecules at micromolar …

Optical gain in an optically driven three-level system in atomic Rb vapor

CW Ballmann, VV Yakovlev - Journal of Modern Optics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, we report experimentally achieved optical gain of a weak probe beam in a three-
level Λ system in a low density Rubidium vapor cell driven by a single pump beam. The …

Generation of tunable high-repetition rate middle infrared transform-limited picosecond pulses

VV Yakovlev, CW Ballmann… - Solid State Lasers XXVII …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Tunable middle infrared generation is now affordable through optical parametric generation
and amplification in a number of infrared nonlinear crystals. However, maintaining narrow …

Towards remote chemical sensing: backward-generated coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

GI Petrov, VV Yakovlev - Nonlinear Frequency Generation and …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
COVID-19 pandemic is calling for new methods of remote chemical sensing, which can
potentially detect small number of viral particles in air at safe distances. Raman …

Electronically tunable, broadband middle infrared picosecond pulse generation via χ (3) interaction

GI Petrov, VV Yakovlev - Nonlinear Frequency Generation and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Generation of tunable middle infrared radiation is important for a number of applications
ranging from biomedical imaging to remote sensing and imaging. Short laser pulses provide …

Hidden equivalence in the collective emission from a dilute atomic cloud

A Zhang, X Chen, L Yuan - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We investigate the collective spontaneous emission from an ensemble of two-level atoms
evenly distributed inside a sphere with a low density. An initial symmetric single-excitation …