The ideal electric laser efficiently converts electrical power into optical power in the form of a beam that can propagate a long distance with minimal diffraction-limited spreading. Various laser applications require scaling to high power (kWs to MWs) while maintaining a diffrac-tion-limited beam; thus, many efforts have been directed toward that goal. The main impediment to this high-power sc...

The collisional dependence of saturated polarization spectroscopy with a picosecond laser is investigated by probing hydroxyl in a flow cell. 01999 Optical Society of America OCIS Codes: (120.1740) Combustion diagnostic (300.6420) Spectroscopy,nonlinear While nanosecond lasers have been used often for nonlinear dia=mostic measurements of flame composition, picosecond lasers provide a potentiall...

The laser damage resistance of the coatings for high-power laser systems depends greatly on the surface quality of the substrate. In our work, experimental approaches were employed to understand the interface coupling effect of the substrate surface and coatings on the laser resistance of the coatings. A 1064 nm anti-reflection (AR) coating was deposited by an e-beam coater onto fused silica wi...

Title of Document: EFFICIENT SIMULATION OF ELECTRON TRAPPING IN LASER AND PLASMA WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION Sepehr Morshed, PhD., 2009 Directed By: Professor Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Plasma based laser Wakefield accelerators (LWFA) have been a subject of interest in the plasma community for many years. In LWFA schemes the laser pulse must propagate s...

this paper addresses the concept of co 2 laser beam machining (lbm) and development of intelligent knowledge base system (ikbs) for co 2 lbm. feature based design is used for acquiring design specification. for optimization of laser beam machining computer based concurrent engineering environment is used. the ikbs is linked to feature base cad system. the ikbs is also linked to material databas...

Thermal lensing effect was studied in aqueous solutions of rhodamine B using 532 nm, 9 ns pulses from a Nd:YAG laser. A low intensity He-Ne laser beam was used for probing the thermal lens. Results obtained show that it is appropriate to use this technique for studying nonlinear absorption processes like two photon absorption or excited state absorption and for analyzing dimerization equilibria.

Precise knowledge of laser beam parameters is a key requirement in many photonics applications including for lasers and optics used in the transportation industry. This paper reports on a novel motion-free laser beam characterization system using electronically agile digital and analog photonics such as a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) and an analog variable focal length lens. The proposed sy...

We investigate the focused properties of circularly polarized beam by a high NA lens axicon based on vector diffraction theory. The Circularly polarized femtosecond laser vortex pulses ablate material differently depending on the handedness of light.This effect offers an additional degree of freedom to control the shape and size of laser-machined structures on a sub-wavelength scale.

A theoretical model for the laser-induced thermal lens effect in weakly absorbing media is derived. The model predicts the intensity variation in the far field of the laser beam in the presence of the lensing medium and takes into account the aberrant nature of the thermal lens. Some experimental results which support the validity of this approach are presented.