title: Spatial-spectral distribution of Rabi radiation generated in plasma.
abstract: We report observation and control of the spatial-spectral distributions of coherent, dynamic Rabi sideband radiation. The Rabi sidebands result from the interaction of a shaped picosecond probe laser of intensity 10(10) W cm(-2), with neutral excited atomic oxygen generated in a laser-induced microplasma. The spatial-spectral distribution is measured and compared for picosecond laser pulses having either an asymmetric temporal shape or a Gaussian temporal shape. The resulting spatial-spectral distributions are in quantitative agreement with theoretical predictions that account for the radial intensity distribution of the picosecond probe pulse.
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Photonics Research, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Heck
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Compton
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Filin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Plewicki
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Romanov
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Levis