How Do Basic Nonlinear Optical Processes Lead to Atmospheric Lasing?

Robert W. Boyd; Robert W. Boyd

doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2015.SM1N.3

CLEO: 2015
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2015),
paper SM1N.3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2015.SM1N.3

How Do Basic Nonlinear Optical Processes Lead to Atmospheric Lasing?

Robert W. Boyd

CLEO: Science and Innovations 2015

San Jose, California United States
10–15 May 2015
ISBN: 978-1-55752-968-8

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Symposium - Remote Atmospheric Lasing I (SM1N)

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Abstract

We review some of the experimental observations of atmospheric lasing and describe how basic nonlinear optical processes such as self focusing, beam filamentation, amplified spontaneous emission and superradiance could lead to some of this behavior.

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