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Zhizhan Xu

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PubMed2006

Photoelectron angular distributions from above threshold ionization of hydrogen atoms in strong laser fields.

We apply a scattering theory of nonperturbative quantum electrodynamics to study the photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) of a hydrogen atom irradiated by linearly polarized laser light. The calculated PADs show main lobes and jetlike structure. Previous experimental studies reveal that in a set of above-threshold-ionization peaks when the absorbed-photon number increases by one, the jet number also increases by one. Our study confirms this experimental observation. Our calculations further predict that in some cases three more jets may appear with just one-more-photon absorption. With consideration of laser-frequency change, one less jet may also appear with one-more-photon absorption. The jetlike structure of PADs is due to the maxima of generalized phased Bessel functions, not an indication of the quantum number of photoelectron angular momentum states.

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PubMed2006

Simultaneous three-photon-excited violet upconversion luminescence of Ce3+:Lu2Si2O7 single crystals by femtosecond laser irradiation.

We found that Ce3+:Lu2Si2O7 single crystals could be excited at 800 nm by using a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser. The emission spectra of Ce3+:Lu2Si2O7 crystals were the same for one-photon excitation at 267 nm as for excitation at 800 nm. The emission intensity of Ce3+:Lu2Si2O7 crystals was found to depend on the cube of the laser power at 800 nm, consistent with simultaneous absorption of three 800 nm photons. The measured value of the three-photon absorption cross section is sigma'3=2.44x10(-77) cm6 s2.

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PubMed2006

Degenerated optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification with cesium lithium borate.

A gain amplifier for degenerated optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) with lithium triborate and cesium lithium borate (CLBO) crystals was demonstrated in a near-collinear configuration. The signal gain of the final energy amplifier with CLBO was approximately 6. After compression, the 123 fs pulse duration was obtained. Compared with potassium dihydrogen phosphate, it is confirmed that CLBO is more effective as a nonlinear crystal in a final power amplifier for terawatt or petawatt OPCPA systems. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of OPCPA with CLBO.

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PubMed2006

Design of adjustable superresolving filters based on birefringent crystals.

A two-mode adjustable superresolving filter based on a birefringent filter is proposed. This kind of filter has superresolution in two modes of adjustment. One is rotation of the binary pupil filter on the optical axis of the system and the other is the tilt of the filter away from the pupil plane on axis parallel or perpendicular to the optical axis of the crystal. The filters act as complex amplitude filters in the former mode, and as pure phase filters in the latter. By analyzing two superresolving parameters, we obtain the optimal design parameters that ensure a large field of view, a large superresolving range, and a high setting accuracy. This kind of filter can provide more flexibility in practical applications.

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PubMed2005

Giant Kerr nonlinearity induced by interacting dark resonances.

A scheme for giant enhancement of the Kerr nonlinearity in a four-level system with double dark resonances is proposed. Compared with that generated in a single-dark-resonance system, the Kerr nonlinearity can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude with vanishing linear absorption. We attribute this dramatic enhancement to the interaction of dark resonances.

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PubMed2005

Time-resolved investigation of low-density plasma channels produced by a kilohertz femtosecond laser in air.

By employing pump-probe back longitudinal diffractometry, the electron density and decay dynamics of a weak plasma channel created by a 1-KHz fs laser in air has been investigated. With ultrashort laser pulses of 50 fs and low energy of 0.6 mJ, we observe weak plasma channels with a length approximately 2 cm in air. An analytical reconstruction method of electron density has been analyzed, which is sensitive to the phase shift and channel size. The electron density in the weak plasma channel is extracted to be about 4 x 10(16) cm(-3). The diameters of the plasma channel and the filament are about 50 and 150 microm, respectively, and the measurable electron density can be extended to less than 10(15) cm(-3). Moreover, a different time-frequency technique called linearly chirped longitudinal diffractometry is proposed to time-resolved investigate ultrafast ionization dynamics of laser-irradiated gas, laser interaction with cluster beam, etc.

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PubMed2005

Attosecond pulse extreme-ultraviolet photoionization in a two-color laser field.

Attosecond-pulse extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) photoionization in a two-color laser field is investigated. Attosecond pulse trains with different numbers of pulses are examined, and their strong dependence on photoelectronic spectra is found. Single-color driving-laser-field-assisted attosecond XUV photoionization cannot determine the number of attosecond pulses from the photoelectronic energy spectrum that are detected orthogonally to the beam direction and the electric field vector of the linearly polarized laser field. A two-color-field-assisted XUV photoionization scheme is proposed for directly determining the number of attosecond pulses from a spectrum detected orthogonally.

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PubMed2004

Laser self-focusing in the presence of quasistatic axial direct current.

We try to understand the presence of a quasistatic magnetic field on the basis of the stability of the laser-plasma system. A general theoretical model of laser self-focusing in the absence of a quasistatic magnetic field (QMF) is extended to discuss self-focusing in the presence of a QMF. Various transverse intensity profiles under different axial collective electronic speeds V(z) are calculated. Numerical results indicate that for suitable laser power and plasma density, the increment in V(z) can lead to a further separation between the photon fluid and the electron fluid and hence a decrement in the energy of the laser-plasma system. This causes it to be possible for the system state without a QMF, or V(z) =0 state, to be not stable relative to some V(z) not equal 0 states.

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PubMed2004

Theory of the Kapitza-Dirac diffraction effect.

We treat the Kapitza-Dirac diffraction effect observed recently by Batelaan et al. using a newly developed nonperturbative quantum-field scattering theory. Our theory shows that an electron beam passing perpendicularly through a focused standing light wave can produce diffraction patterns. Our theory predicts (1) the minimum value of the ponderomotive energy is (Planck's over 2 pi omega)(2)/m(e)c(2), (2) the critical laser intensity above which the first pair of electron diffraction peaks will occur, and (3) the existence of sidebands in the electron spectra separated far from the central band by a momentum of several hundred photons. Our theory provides a unified explanation of the experimental results of Bucksbaum et al. and Batelaan et al.

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PubMed2004

Tunable phase-only optical filters with a uniaxial crystal.

A novel method of fabricating phase-only optical filters that is based on the properties of a uniaxial crystal is proposed. With these optical filters, the phase differences are tunable among the different filter zones. Many focal patterns can be obtained if these optical filters are placed in front of a lens; furthermore, these optical filters can also be used to make up for the distortions in fabrications in which they were used only as untunable optical filters.

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PubMed2003

Ponderomotive acceleration of electrons by a tightly focused intense laser beam.

Ponderomotive force driven acceleration of an electron at the focus of a high-intensity short-pulse laser is considered. Accounting for the asymmetry of acceleration and deceleration due to the evolution of the Gaussian laser beam waist, the energized electron is extracted from the laser pulse by the longitudinal ponderomotive force. It is shown that an electron's energy gain in the range of MeV can be realized for laser intensities above 10(19) W microm(2)/cm(2). Final energy gain as a function of the scattering angle and the electron's initial position has also been discussed.

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PubMed2003

Near-field speckles produced by random self-affine surfaces and their contrast transitions.

By use of a numerical calculation based on Green's integral equation, we study the near-field speckles produced by the random self-affine fractal surfaces of a dielectric medium. The speckle intensities evolve considerably in the near-field region, and the local fluctuations in them disappear before they have traversed the distance of a wavelength. The transition of the speckle contrast either on the surface or in the near field and in the neighborhood non-near-field regions depends on lateral correlation length xi and roughness exponent alpha of the random surfaces.

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PubMed2003

Steady copropagation mode of laser pulse and plasma wave.

Stimulated Raman scattering is investigated using a nonperturbative method. The existence of steady copropagation modes of laser field and plasma wave is discussed. The plasma wave strength is analyzed through its relation with the total energy of the laser-plasma system. It is found that at a sufficiently high laser intensity there exist stable copropagating modes with non-zero-strength plasma waves. The strength of plasma wave in a stable steady copropagation mode is found to have an exact expression in terms of the frequency, the wave vector of the plasma wave and the laser intensity.

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PubMed2002

Absolute measurement of roughness and lateral-correlation length of random surfaces by use of the simplified model of image-speckle contrast.

We present a method of image-speckle contrast for the nonprecalibration measurement of the root-mean-square roughness and the lateral-correlation length of random surfaces with Gaussian correlation. We use the simplified model of the speckle fields produced by the weak scattering object in the theoretical analysis. The explicit mathematical relation shows that the saturation value of the image-speckle contrast at a large aperture radius determines the roughness, while the variation of the contrast with the aperture radius determines the lateral-correlation length. In the experimental performance, we specially fabricate the random surface samples with Gaussian correlation. The square of the image-speckle contrast is measured versus the radius of the aperture in the 4f system, and the roughness and the lateral-correlation length are extracted by fitting the theoretical result to the experimental data. Comparison of the measurement with that by an atomic force microscope shows our method has a satisfying accuracy.

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