This Conference Presentation, “Effect of molecular orbital angular momentum on spatial distribution of fluorescence during femtosecond laser filamentation in air,” was recorded for Photonics Asia 2021, held in Nantong, China.
Femtosecond laser filament induced breakdown spectroscopy is a promising technique that can be used in the remote sensing of air pollutants. Raising the laser energy saturation point below which the laser filament fluorescence increases exponentially with the incident laser energy will significantly improve the sensing sensitivity and detection distance. In this work, a saturation point raising scheme is proposed in which a quarter-circle π phase plate is used to form four optical filaments in air. The extrapolation based on the experimental results infers that the employment of the quarter-circle π phase plate and its induced multiple filaments can lead to the increase of the laser energy saturation point by four times, which is proportional to the number of sub-regions in the phase plate.
Single or double femtosecond Bessel laser beams are employed to generate multiple annular beams with different central wavelengths. A set of annular beams with bandwidths of several tens of nanometers and different peak wavelengths discretely distributed in the visible and infrared wavelength range are generated. No supercontinuum emission is observed. The propagation directions of these annular beams are wavelength-dependent and different from the propagation direction of the pump femtosecond Bessel beams, so four-wave mixing and secondary parametric process are considered to be the generation mechanism of these annular beams, which is further confirmed by numerical simulations. The energy conversion efficiency of single generated annular beam is in the order of 10-6. It is expected that specific resonant structures of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility of the sample used in experiments can enhance the energy conversion efficiency at certain wavelengths. These simultaneously generated colorful annular beams are actually composed of light pulses with nearly the same durations as the pump femtosecond pulses, which can find important applications where multi-wavelength ultrashort light pulses are needed, such as optical telecommunications, sensing, and pump-probe measurements. It is considered that stimulated four-wave mixing and corresponding cascaded parametric process are the main generation mechanism.
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