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Self-induced laser beam splitting in sodium vapor

R. Holzner, B. Röhricht, Patrik Eschle, S. Dangel, Ernst Brun, A. W. McCord, Massimo Brambilla, Franco Prati

Published May 2, 1993• 0 citations
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Summary form only given. The interaction between an intense pump beam and a weak probe beam in an atomic vapor has been the subject of numerous investigations. Besides the well-known features in the frequency spectrum of the light, interesting spatial phenomena are observed. They are due to the inhomogeneous intensity distribution of a laser beam, coupled to propagation, and range from self-focusing or defocusing effects to the generation of localized distributions of light that propagate self-similarly (bright or dark solitons). We investigate the reshaping of a probe beam due to the interaction with a pump in sodium vapor, a problem that is important in many different contexts.