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Higher-order Kerr terms allow ionization-free filamentation in gases
2010
International audience; We show that higher-order nonlinear indices (n4 , n6 , n8 , n10) provide the main defocusing contribution to self-channeling of ultrashort laser pulses in air and Argon at 800 nm, in contrast with the previously accepted mechanism of filamentation where plasma was considered as the dominant defocusing process. Their consideration allows to reproduce experimentally observed intensities and plasma densities in self-guided filaments.
Laser induced field-free molecular alignment
2008
Talk given by O. Faucher; International audience
Field-free molecular alignment of ethylene
2007
Talk given by O. Faucher; International audience
High-order Kerr nonlinearity of air calibrated with transient molecular alignment
2009
Talk given by O. Faucher; International audience; Nonlinear electronic Kerr index of the major air constituents has been measured up to high order terms using transient molecular alignment as a reference. Sign reversal associated to negative nonlinearity is observed above a pulse intensity of 26 TW/cm^2.
La molécule d'éthylène soumise à des impulsions laser femtosecondes : spectroscopie rotationnelle et alignement
2006
Talk given by B. Lavorel
Control and optimization of postpulse molecular alignment by shaped laser pulse
2008
Talk given by O. Faucher; International audience
Laser induced molecular alignment of ethylene
2007
Talk given by O. Faucher
Intense, table-top, sub-fs radiation sources. Current status and future perspectives
2008
Talk given by D. Charalambidis; International audience
Modelling of laser beam texturing process: experimental and numerical approaches
2007
The aim of this work is to reache a better control of the laser beam surface texturing process on three materials: 304L, TA6V and AA6056 alloys. For this purpose, two complementary methods, experimental and numerical modelling, have been used. As a result of the experimental design approach, it was observed that the laser surface texturing process of 304L and TA6V alloys is strongly influenced by the pulse energy and frequency. In order to obtain a surface roughness Sa < 5 µm for the highest possible productivity it is necessary to work with an energy of 5 mJ and a frequency ranging between 10 and 12 kHz. Unfortunately, for aluminium alloy AA6056, it is necessary to make a choice between ha…
Modèles quantiques à deux états avec croisements de niveaux décrits par les fonctions de Heun
2019
The thesis is devoted to the fundamental problem of excitation and manipulation of quantum systems, having discrete energy spectrum, via external laser fields. We examine the semiclassical time- dependent quantum two-state problem, when the external electromagnetic field is resonant or quasi-resonant for some two of many levels of the system. The focus of the thesis is on the analytic description of the non- adiabatic evolution of quantum systems subject to excitation by level-crossing field configurations. In the present thesis we classify the complete set of the semiclassical time-dependent quantum two-state models solvable in terms of the five function of the Heun class.Main results of t…