Title :
Helical filaments
Author :
Barbieri, Nicola ; Hosseinimakarem, Zahra ; Lim, Khan ; Durand, Magali ; Webb, Benjamin ; Bradford, Joshua ; McKee, Erik ; Bodnar, Nathan ; Shah, Lawrence ; Baudelet, Matthieu ; Johnson, Eric ; Richardson, Mark
Author_Institution :
Townes Laser Inst., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate the use of non-diffracting beams to control and organize multiple filamentation in air. Here, a pair of laser filaments which twist about the optical axis during propagation is obtained using a Bessel beam superposition.
Keywords :
Bessel functions; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; light propagation; optical modulation; phase modulation; Bessel beam superposition; helical filaments; multiple filamentation; nondiffracting beams; optical axis; spatial phase modulation; Electrodes; Laser beams; Laser theory; Optical diffraction; Optical imaging; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
