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Observation of continuous-wave on-resonance “self-focusing”

K. Tai, H. M. Gibbs, M. C. Rushford, N. Peyghambarian, J. S. Satchell, M. G. Boshier, R. J. Ballagh, W. J. Sandle, M. LeBerre, E. Ressayre, A. Tallet, J. Teichmann, Y. Claude, F. P. Mattar, and P. D. Drummond

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Abstract

We report what to our knowledge are the first observations of an increase in the on-axis intensity of an intense cw on-resonance beam resulting from nonlinear absorption and diffraction during its propagation through a highly absorbing medium (sodium vapor). This “self-focusing” is not a self-lensing; instead it is modeled well by placing an aperture part way through the cell: The stripping by the aperture approximates the effect of the nonlinear absorption, and then Fresnel diffraction results in on-axis minima and maxima.

© 1984 Optical Society of America

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