Laser shaping and optical power limiting of pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams of high-order radial modes in fullerene C60

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ac70b6

Abstract We study the strong nonlinear optical dynamics of nanosecond pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams of high-order radial modes with zero orbital angular momentum propagating in the fullerene C₆₀ molecular medium. It is found that the spatiotemporal profile of the incident pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam is strongly reshaped during its propagation in the C₆₀ molecular medium. The centrosymmetric temporal profile of the incident pulse gradually evolves into a non-centrosymmetric meniscus shape, and the on-axis pulse duration is clearly depressed. Furthermore, the field intensity is distinctly attenuated due to the field-intensity-dependent reverse saturable absorption, and clear optical power limiting behavior is observed for different orders of the input pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams before the takeover of the saturation effect; the lower the order of the Laguerre-Gaussian beam, the lower the energy transmittance.

Keywords: pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams high-order radial mode optical power limiting reverse saturable absorption

Received: 18 January 2022
Revised: 27 April 2022
Accepted manuscript online: 18 May 2022

PACS:	42.25.Bs	(Wave propagation, transmission and absorption)
	42.65.Sf	(Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio-temporal dynamics)
	32.80.Rm	(Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11974108 and 11574082), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2021MS046), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (Grant No. ZR2019MA020).

Corresponding Authors: Ji-Cai Liu
E-mail: jicailiu@ncepu.edu.cn

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Jie Li(李杰), Wen-Hui Guan(管文慧), Shuo Yuan(袁烁), Ya-Nan Zhao(赵亚男), Yu-Ping Sun(孙玉萍), and Ji-Cai Liu(刘纪彩) Laser shaping and optical power limiting of pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams of high-order radial modes in fullerene C₆₀ 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 024203

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