Investigations into the volume plasma density grating waveplate

Holt, George K. and Vieux, Gregory and Ersfeld, Bernhard and Yoffe, Samuel R. and Feehan, James and Brunetti, Enrico and Hur, Min Sup and Jaroszynski, Dino A. (2021) Investigations into the volume plasma density grating waveplate. Proceedings of SPIE, 11778. 117780M. ISSN 0277-786X (https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2595298)

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Abstract

Volume density gratings produced by degenerate, counterpropagating laser pulses in plasma have several useful optical properties. Here we report on one of these in an investigation into creation of a transient plasma density grating that functions as a waveplate.