Spatio-temporal cleaning of a femtosecond laser pulse by a filament conjugate mirror

A. Jarnac; M. Durand; A. Houard; Yi Liu; B. Prade; M. Richardson; A. Mysyrowicz

doi:10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6800832

Spatio-temporal cleaning of a femtosecond laser pulse by a filament conjugate mirror

A. Jarnac
, M. Durand
, A. Houard
, Yi Liu
, B. Prade
, M. Richardson
, A. Mysyrowicz

Centre national de la recherche scientifique
University of Central Florida

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Abstract

Optical phase conjugation is well known for its time reversal properties [1]. A phase conjugate mirror is formed when two laser beams of same frequency w meet from opposite directions in a transparent nonlinear medium. When a probe beam is retro-reflected by an optical phase conjugate mirror, wavefront distortions induced by a phase object are removed after re-crossing this object [2, 3]. In this presentation, we use two counter-propagating filaments to create a conjugate mirror with air as a non linear medium [4]. We demonstrate that it operates differently from a usual conjugate mirror. With a filament conjugate mirror, the reflected signal has essentially a perfect spatial mode independent of the initial probe beam profile.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6800832
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2013
Event	2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013 - Munich, Germany Duration: 12 May 2013 → 16 May 2013

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Conference	2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Munich
Period	12/05/13 → 16/05/13

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Jarnac, A., Durand, M., Houard, A., Liu, Y., Prade, B., Richardson, M., & Mysyrowicz, A. (2013). Spatio-temporal cleaning of a femtosecond laser pulse by a filament conjugate mirror. Paper presented at 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and International Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-IQEC 2013, Munich, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6800832

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Spatio-temporal cleaning of a femtosecond laser pulse by a filament conjugate mirror

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