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Temporal Focusing Enables Distortion-Resistant high-intensity Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices
Jielei Ni, Yao Zhang, Qianyi Wei +10
Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) carry transverse orbital angular momentum and offer new degrees of freedom for light-matter interactions. Yet conventional focusing of STOVs…
Highly efficient multi-chromatic Raman microlasers from cavity polygon modes on thin-film lithium niobate platform
Yixuan Yang, Chuntao Li, Renhong Gao +5
The integration of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and second order nonlinearity in non-centrosymmetric photonic microresonators presents a highly promising solution for developi…
Second harmonic generation with 48% conversion efficiency from cavity polygon modes in a monocrystalline lithium niobate microdisk resonator
Chao Sun, Jielei Ni, Chuntao Li +10
Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) based optical microresonators offer large nonlinear coefficient d_33 and high light-wave confinement, allowing highly efficient second-order optica…
Phase matched second harmonic generation in an on-chip lithium niobate microresonator fabricated by femtosecond laser
Jintian Lin, Yingxin Xu, Jielei Ni +5
Nonlinear optical processes in whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators have attracted much attention. Owing to the strong confinement of light in a small volume, a WGM micror…
Plasma waves excited at interface by femtosecond laser irradiation enabling formation of volume nanograting in glass
Yang Liao, Jielei Ni, Lingling Qiao +4
Irradiation of intense ultrafast laser pulses in glasses can lead to formation of nanogratings whose periods are significantly smaller than the incident irradiation wavelength. The…
Interferometric characterization of pulse front tilt of spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser pulses for three-dimensional micromachining application
Zhaohui Wang, Fei He, Jielei Ni +6
We report on an experimental measurement of the pulse front tilt (PFT) of spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser pulses in the focal plane in both air and bulk transparent mate…
Gain dynamics of a free-space nitrogen laser pumped by circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses
Jinping Yao, Hongqiang Xie, Bin Zeng +9
We experimentally demonstrate ultrafast dynamic of generation of a strong 337-nm nitrogen laser by injecting an external seed pulse into a femtosecond laser filament pumped by a ci…
Impulsive rotational Raman scattering of N2 by a remote "air laser" in femtosecond laser filament
Jielei Ni, Wei Chu, Haisu Zhang +8
We report on experimental realization of impulsive rotational Raman scattering from neutral nitrogen molecules in a femtosecond laser filament using an intense self-induced white-l…
Real-time observation of dynamics in rotational molecular wave packets by use of "air laser" spectroscopy
Bin Zeng, Wei Chu, Guihua Li +6
Molecular rotational spectroscopy based on strong-field-ionization-induced nitrogen laser is employed to investigate the time evolution of the rotational wave packet composed by a…
Second harmonic generation in a centrosymmetric gas medium with spatiotemporally focused intense femtosecond laser pulses
Guihua Li, Jielei Ni, Hongqiang Xie +9
We demonstrate unexpectedly strong second harmonic generation (SHG) in Argon gas by use of spatiotemporally focused (SF) femtosecond laser pulses. The resulting SHG by the SF schem…
Signature of superradiance from a nitrogen gas plasma channel produced by strong field ionization
Guihua Li, Chenrui Jing, Bin Zeng +8
Recently, Yao et al. demonstrated the creation of coherent emissions in nitrogen gas with two-color (800 nm + 400 nm) ultrafast laser pulses [New J. Phys. 15, 023046 (2013)]. Based…
Self-induced white-light seeding laser in a femtosecond laser filament
Wei Chu, Guihua Li, Hongqiang Xie +8
We report, for what we believe to be the first time, on the generation of remote self-seeding laser amplification by using only one 800 nm Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser pulse. The…
Signature of multi-channel interference in high-order harmonic generation from N2 driven by intense mid-infrared pulses
Guihua Li, Jinping Yao, Xinhua Xie +10
We investigate the multi-electron dynamics in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from N2 molecules. Clear spectral minima are observed in the cutoff region at all three mid-infra…
Reconstruction of a Rotational Wavepacket of Inverted Molecular Ions in an Intense Femtosecond Laser Field
Haisu Zhang, Chenrui Jing, Jinping Yao +10
We report on generation of a rotational wavepacket in the ground vibronic state (v = 0) of excited electronic B2Σu+ state of N2+ in a femtosecond laser induced plasma spark. Decodi…
Alignment-dependent fluorescence emission induced by tunnel ionization of carbon dioxide from lower-lying orbitals
Jinping Yao, Guihua Li, Xinyan Jia +13
Study on ionization process of molecules in an intense infrared laser field is of paramount interest in strong-field physics and constitutes the foundation of imaging of molecular…
Remote creation of strong and coherent emissions in air with two-color ultrafast laser pulses
Jinping Yao, Guihua Li, Chenrui Jing +11
We experimentally demonstrate generation of strong narrow-bandwidth emissions with excellent coherent properties at ~391 nm and ~428 nm from molecular ions of nitrogen inside a fem…
Harmonic-seeded remote laser emissions in N2-Ar, N2-Xe and N2-Ne mixtures: a comparative study
Jielei Ni, Wei Chu, Haisu Zhang +9
We report on the investigation on harmonic-seeded remote laser emissions at 391 nm wavelength from strong-field ionized nitrogen molecules in three different gas mixtures, i.e., N2…
Comparative investigation of third and fifth harmonic generation in atomic and molecular gases driven by mid-infrared ultrafast laser pulses
Jielei Ni, Jinping Yao, Bin Zeng +7
We report on the comparative experimental investigation on third and fifth harmonic generation (THG and FHG) in atomic and molecular gases driven by mid-infrared ultrafast laser pu…
Direct generation of intense extreme ultraviolet supercontinuum with 35 fs, 11 mJ pulses from a femtosecond laser amplifier
Bin Zeng, Wei Chu, Guihua Li +5
We report on the generation of intense extreme ultraviolet (EUV) supercontinuum with photon energies spanning from 35 eV to 50 eV (i. e., supporting an isolated attosecond pulse wi…
High-brightness switchable multi-wavelength remote laser in air
Jinping Yao, Bin Zeng, Huailiang Xu +7
Remote laser in air based on amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) has produced rather well-collimated coherent beams in both backward and forward propagation directions, opening up…