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  • Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1992),
  • paper QMD3

Transverse bouncing of polarized laser beams in sodium vapor

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Abstract

Although there has been considerable interest m the role of transverse (diffractive) effects in optical instabilities and in the formation of optical spatial patterns,1 relatively little attention has been given to the propagation of arbitrarily polarized light. A recent calculation of laser light propagation in sodium vapor,2 which includes diffraction, saturation, and optical pumping polarization effect,3 has predicted the mutual deflection (bouncing) of two laser beams of orthogonal circular polarization together with the formation of h transverse rib-like intensity modulation of the beam profiles in the interaction region.

© 1992 Optical Society of America

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