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Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference

Two-beam-excited conical emission

Martti Olavi Kauranen, Jeffery J. Maki, Alexander L. Gaeta, Robert W. Boyd

Published May 12, 1991• 0 citations
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Abstract

We have observed a new type of conical emission that occurs when two beams of light intersect in sodium vapor. Unlike the other forms of conical emission,1-4 for which the cone angle depends on material parameters, the cone angle of the two-beam-excited (TBE) conical emission that we observe is determined by the geometry of the interaction.

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We have observed a new type of conical emission that occurs when two beams of light intersect in sodium vapor. Unlike the other forms of conical emission,1-4 for which the cone angle depends on material parameters, the cone angle of the two-beam-excited (TBE) conical emission that we observe is determined by the geometry of the interaction.
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Conical light emission is observed when an intense quasiresonant laser beam propagates in an atomic vapor.1-4 A parametric four-wave mixing process was suggested to explain this effect.1 However, this model is inconsistent with experiments both quantitatively in the value of the predicted cone angle and qualitatively due to the absence of the obligatory blue counterpart to the red-shifted cone photon.2-4 A model of Cherenkov radiation by a laser-induced moving polarization was proposed to account for the origin and angular/spectral dependencies of the conical emission.3
There Is an ongoing interest in the conical emission resulting from the passage of a laser light tuned in the vicinity of a resonant atomic transition(1–2). We also have observed such emission in high density sodium vapor in the range of 1015 cm−3, when an intense laser radiation is blue detuned with respect to any of the D lines. This conical emission shell has half angle of a few degrees around the laser axis, is red detuned from the respective D line, is spectrally broad (3A) and is obtained in laser intensity and detunings and sodium vapor density ranges where self-focusing occurs. No symmetric blue shifted component was observed. Harter and Boyd(1) have obtained symmetrical Rabi side-band emission in the forward direction at sodium vapor density of 1014 cm−3.