Bidirectional cascaded superfluorescent lasing in air enabled by resonant third harmonic photon exchange from nitrogen to argon
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| author | Nie, Zan Nambu, Noa Marsh, Kenneth A. Matteo, Daniel Patel, C. Kumar Zhang, Chaojie Wu, Yipeng Carlström, Stefanos Morales, Felipe Patchkovskii, Serguei Smirnova, Olga Ivanov, Misha Joshi, Chan |
| author_facet | Nie, Zan Nambu, Noa Marsh, Kenneth A. Matteo, Daniel Patel, C. Kumar Zhang, Chaojie Wu, Yipeng Carlström, Stefanos Morales, Felipe Patchkovskii, Serguei Smirnova, Olga Ivanov, Misha Joshi, Chan |
| contents | Cavity-free lasing in atmospheric air has stimulated intense research towards fundamental understanding of underlying physical mechanisms. In this Letter, we identify a new mechanism -- third harmonic photon mediated resonant energy transfer pathway leading to population inversion in argon via initial three-photon excitation of nitrogen molecules irradiated by intense 261 nm pulses -- that enables bidirectional two-color cascaded lasing in atmospheric air. By making pump-probe measurements, we conclusively show that such cascaded lasing results from superfluorescence (SF) rather than amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). Such cascaded lasing with the capability of producing bidirectional multicolor coherent pulses opens additional possibilities for remote sensing applications. |
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| spellingShingle | Bidirectional cascaded superfluorescent lasing in air enabled by resonant third harmonic photon exchange from nitrogen to argon Nie, Zan Nambu, Noa Marsh, Kenneth A. Matteo, Daniel Patel, C. Kumar Zhang, Chaojie Wu, Yipeng Carlström, Stefanos Morales, Felipe Patchkovskii, Serguei Smirnova, Olga Ivanov, Misha Joshi, Chan Optics Atomic Physics Cavity-free lasing in atmospheric air has stimulated intense research towards fundamental understanding of underlying physical mechanisms. In this Letter, we identify a new mechanism -- third harmonic photon mediated resonant energy transfer pathway leading to population inversion in argon via initial three-photon excitation of nitrogen molecules irradiated by intense 261 nm pulses -- that enables bidirectional two-color cascaded lasing in atmospheric air. By making pump-probe measurements, we conclusively show that such cascaded lasing results from superfluorescence (SF) rather than amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). Such cascaded lasing with the capability of producing bidirectional multicolor coherent pulses opens additional possibilities for remote sensing applications. |
| title | Bidirectional cascaded superfluorescent lasing in air enabled by resonant third harmonic photon exchange from nitrogen to argon |
| topic | Optics Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04089 |