Frequency up-conversion and trapping of ultrashort laser pulses in semiconductor plasmas
Abstract
It is shown that the interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with nonstationary semiconductor plasmas can, under appropriate conditions, lead to a variety of interesting phenomena including controlled upshifting of the laser frequency leading to the possibility of tunable lasers in a wide range of frequencies, and trapping (nonpropagation) of a substantial part of the incident pulse.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Inst. for Fusion Studies|[Inst. of Physics, Tbilisi (Georgia). Dept. of Plasma Physics
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Inst. for Fusion Studies
- Inst. of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw (Poland)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Texas, Inst. for Fusion Studies, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 674819
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/54346-828
ON: DE99000352; TRN: AHC29820%%274
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG03-96ER54346
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Jul 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES; LASERS; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; LASER RADIATION; SOLID-STATE PLASMA; TUNING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
Citation Formats
Berezhiani, V.I., Mahajan, S.M., and Miklaszewski, R. Frequency up-conversion and trapping of ultrashort laser pulses in semiconductor plasmas. United States: N. p., 1998.
Web. doi:10.2172/674819.
Berezhiani, V.I., Mahajan, S.M., & Miklaszewski, R. Frequency up-conversion and trapping of ultrashort laser pulses in semiconductor plasmas. United States. doi:10.2172/674819.
Berezhiani, V.I., Mahajan, S.M., and Miklaszewski, R. Wed .
"Frequency up-conversion and trapping of ultrashort laser pulses in semiconductor plasmas". United States.
doi:10.2172/674819. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/674819.
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year = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998},
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