Spatiotemporal cleaning of a femtosecond laser pulse through interaction with counterpropagating filaments in air

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

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.89.023844

Spatiotemporal cleaning of a femtosecond laser pulse through interaction with counterpropagating filaments in air

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

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We demonstrate spatiotemporal cleaning of a femtosecond laser pulse impinging on two counterpropagating filaments in air. The retroreflected signal essentially has a perfect beam profile. Prepulses present in the incident pulse are also efficiently removed. The performance of the "filament mirror" is explained by a plasma-mediated wave mixing process that can be viewed as a transient three-dimensional hologram.

Original language	English
Article number	023844
Journal	Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume	89
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.89.023844
Publication status	Published - 26 Feb 2014

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Spatiotemporal cleaning of a femtosecond laser pulse through interaction with counterpropagating filaments in air

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