Rotational quantum beat lasing without inversion

M Richter, M Lytova, F Morales, S Haessler… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In standard lasers, light amplification requires population inversion between an upper and a
lower state to break the reciprocity between absorption and stimulated emission. However …

Generation of vortex N2 + lasing

Y Hu, Z Ye, H Li, C Lu, F Chen, J Wang, S Pan… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Harnessing structured light is fascinating for its multidisciplinary applications, eg, in remote
driving microrobots, sensing, communications, and ultrahigh resolution imaging. Here, we …

Bidirectional cascaded superfluorescent lasing in air enabled by resonant third harmonic photon exchange from nitrogen to argon

Z Nie, N Nambu, KA Marsh, D Matteo, CK Patel… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Cavity-free lasing in atmospheric air has stimulated intense research toward a fundamental
understanding of underlying physical mechanisms. In this Letter, we identify a new …

Structured air lasing of N2+

J Gao, X Zhang, Y Wang, Y Fang, Q Lu, Z Li… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Air lasing is a simple and promising technique to efficiently produce coherent light in the
atmosphere. Yet, its capability to obtain structured light like optical vortices or vector beams …

Giant Enhancement of Air Lasing by Complete Population Inversion in

H Li, E Lötstedt, H Li, Y Zhou, N Dong, L Deng, P Lu… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
A fine manipulation of population transfer among molecular quantum levels is a key
technology for control of molecular processes. When a light field intensity is increased to the …

Coherent control of the multiple wavelength lasing of : coherence transfer and beyond

X Zhang, Q Lu, Z Zhang, Z Fan, D Zhou, Q Liang… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Nitrogen molecules pumped by intense femtosecond laser pulses give rise to coherent
emission in the forward direction at a series of wavelengths, coined “air lasing.” We …

Coherent electronic-vibrational dynamics in deuterium bromide probed via attosecond transient-absorption spectroscopy

Y Kobayashi, KF Chang, SM Poullain, V Scutelnic… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Ultrafast laser excitation can trigger complex coherent dynamics in molecules. Here, we
report attosecond transient-absorption experiments addressing simultaneous probing of …

Influence of polarization ellipticity on lasing in a strong laser field

Z Zhu, S Xue, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, R Yang, S Sun, Z Liu… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
A near-infrared femtosecond laser pulse produces laserlike coherent radiation from singly
ionized N 2+ molecules when it experiences filamentation in air or pure nitrogen, and the …

Amplification of light pulses with orbital angular momentum (OAM) in nitrogen ions lasing

H Mei, J Gao, K Wang, J Dong, Q Gong, C Wu, Y Liu… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Nitrogen ions pumped by intense femtosecond laser pulses give rise to optical amplification
in the ultraviolet range. Here, we demonstrated that a seed light pulse carrying orbital …

Role of rotational coherence in femtosecond-pulse-driven nitrogen ion lasing

H **e, H Lei, G Li, Q Zhang, X Wang, J Zhao… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We experimentally investigated the rotationally resolved polarization characteristics of N 2+
lasing at 391 and 428 nm using a pump-seed scheme. By varying the relative angle …