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F Encinas-Sanz

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PubMed2004

Time-resolved dynamics of two-dimensional transverse patterns in broad area lasers.

We report the first direct experimental observation of the fast dynamics (nanosecond scale) of complex two-dimensional transverse patterns in broad area lasers. The laser emission bright peaks forming the transverse patterns are observed to be aperiodically flashing in time with different growing rates. These optical filaments do not move along the cross section during their lifetime, which is close to 2 ns. The experimental observations have also been reproduced by numerical integration of the Maxwell-Bloch equations.

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PubMed2001

Complete spatial characterization of a pulsed doughnut-type beam by use of spherical optics and a cylindrical lens.

A complete spatial characterization (in second-order moments) of a doughnut-type beam from a pulsed transversely excited atmospheric CO2 laser is described. It includes the measurement of the orbital angular momentum carried by the beam. The key element in the characterization is the use of a cylindrical lens in addition to the usual spherical optics. Internal features of the beam that would have remained hidden if only spherical optics were employed were revealed by use of the cylindrical lens. The experimental results are compared and agree with a theoretical Laguerre-Gauss mode beam.

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PubMed2001

Time-resolved spatial profile of TEA CO2 laser pulses: influence of the gas mixture and intracavity apertures.

The evolution of the intensity profile of transversely excited atmospheric CO2 laser pulses is investigated within the intensity moment formalism. The beam quality factor M2 is used to study the mode evolution. Attention is focused on the influence of both the gas mixture (N2 :CO2 :He) and the diameter of an intracavity diaphragm placed to attenuate higher-order modes. The degree of accuracy that can be attained by approximating the laser field amplitude by means of the lower-order terms of a Hermite-Gauss expansion is also analyzed. In particular, a bound for the truncation error is given in terms of two time-resolved spatial parameters, namely the beam width and the M2 parameter.

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PubMed2000

Time resolved pattern evolution in a large aperture laser

We have measured quasiinstantaneous transverse patterns in a broad aperture laser. Nonordered patterns yielding to boundary determined regular structures in progressive time-integrated recording are observed. The linear analysis and numerical integration of the full Maxwell-Bloch equations allow us to interpret the features of the experiment. We show that this system being far from threshold cannot be fully understood with a perturbative model.

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