Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Plasma optical modulators for intense lasers

  • Lu-Le Yu,
  • Yao Zhao,
  • Lie-Jia Qian,
  • Min Chen,
  • Su-Ming Weng,
  • Zheng-Ming Sheng,
  • D. A. Jaroszynski,
  • W. B. Mori,
  • Jie Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11893
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Optical modulators are easily damaged by high-intensity pulses. Here, the authors propose a method for directly modulating high-power laser light across a broad spectral range using a wave generated in a sub-millimetre-scale underdense plasma by a second laser.