The molecular wake-assisted interaction between two collinear femotosecond laser pulses is investigated in air,which leads to the generation of a controllable 1.8 mJ super-continuum pulse with an elongated self-guided channel due to the cross-phase modulation of the impulsively aligned diatomic molecules in air. For two parallel launched femtosecond laser pulses with a certain spatial separation,controllable attraction and repulsion of the pulses are observed due to the counter-balance among molecular wakes,Kerr and plasma effects,where the molecular wakes show a longer interaction distance than the others to control the propagation of the intense ultrashort laser pulses.
CAI Hua,WU Jian,LU PeiFen,TONG YuQi,YANG Xuan,BAI XueShi,LI Hao,PAN HaiFeng & ZENG HePing State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy,East China Normal University,Shanghai 200062,China
