DIFFERENT TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR FOR THE FORWARD-CIRCULATING AND BACKWARD-CIRCULATING RADIATION WITHIN A MICRODROPLET

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作者
CHEUNG, JL [1 ]
HARTINGS, JM [1 ]
CHANG, RK [1 ]
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[1] YALE UNIV,CTR LASER DIAGNOST,NEW HAVEN,CT 06520
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10.1364/OL.20.001089
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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Spatially resolved nonlinear scattering of a train of picosecond pulses from ethanol microdroplets is investigated. Different time behavior is observed for Light with the same and the opposite sense of circulation as the input-coupled light. The forward-circulating Light exhibits a smooth, delayed pulse-to-pulse growth, attributed to increased input coupling with time induced by the laser pulses. The backward-circulating light has an irregular time behavior, attributed to near-backward stimulated Brillouin scattering. Increased scattering as a result of CO2 (compared with He) dissolved gas is demonstrated by an intensity decrease of the spatially precessed radiation on a cavity resonance.
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