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Acoustic gigawatt laser deflection

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Acoustic modulation of atmospheric air enables the deflection of laser pulses with a peak power of 20 gigawatts, expanding the acousto-optics toolbox to high-power laser manipulation in ambient air.

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Fig. 1: Laser beam deflection in ambient air.

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  1. Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany

    Günter Steinmeyer

  2. Department of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

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Steinmeyer, G. Acoustic gigawatt laser deflection. Nat. Photon. 18, 10–11 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01353-3

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