Dynamic transition from modelike patterns to turbulentlike patterns in a broad-area Nd:YAG laser
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Direct Imaging of Laser-driven Ultrafast Molecular Rotation
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Eduardo Cabrera1, Sonia Melle, Oscar G Calderón
1Departamento de Optica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain. ecabrera@fis.ucm.es
Optics Letters
|April 22, 2006
Abstract:
We report the first experimental observation to our knowledge of a dynamic transition from modelike patterns to completely disordered patterns in a large-aspect-ratio Nd:YAG laser. Recordings of near-field patterns with an integration time as small as 1 ns allow us to follow the evolution of the transverse intensity profile along the output pulse of the laser.
