Small-Scale And Whole Beam Self-Focusing Of Very Intense Laser Beams In Saturable Absorbers

J. P. Babuel-Peyrissac; J. P. Marinier; C. Bardin; F. P. Mattar; J. Teichmann; Y. Claude; B. R. Suydam

doi:10.1117/12.976170

20 November 1985 Small-Scale And Whole Beam Self-Focusing Of Very Intense Laser Beams In Saturable Absorbers

J. P. Babuel-Peyrissac, J. P. Marinier, C. Bardin, F. P. Mattar, J. Teichmann, Y. Claude, B. R. Suydam

Proceedings Volume 0540, Southwest Conf on Optics '85; (1985) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976170
Event: 1985 Albuquerque Conferences on Optics, 1985, Albuquerque, United States

Abstract

We will examine here the influence of small-scale perturbations on light propagation inside a saturable atomic vapor, where the induced polarization is obtained by solving the steady-state optical Bloch equations. Numerical computations have been found to be in excellent agreement wich the results predicted by the analytical study of plane-wave perturbations in the linear regime. Computational results about initial non-plane laser beams are also of interest.

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J. P. Babuel-Peyrissac, J. P. Marinier, C. Bardin, F. P. Mattar, J. Teichmann, Y. Claude, and B. R. Suydam "Small-Scale And Whole Beam Self-Focusing Of Very Intense Laser Beams In Saturable Absorbers", Proc. SPIE 0540, Southwest Conf on Optics '85, (20 November 1985); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976170

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