A scaling mechanism for increasing the terahertz emission from ionization of air

Matteo Clerici*, Marco Peccianti, Bruno E. Schmidt, Lucia Caspani, Mostafa Shalaby, Mathieu Giguère, Antonio Lotti, Arnaud Couairon, François Légaré, Tsuneyuki Ozaki, Daniele Faccio, Roberto Morandotti

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Abstract

A significant enhancement of the terahertz generation efficiency via two-color laserinduced air ionization, up to 10-3, is observed with increasing pump wavelength. Terahertz peak fields up to 4.4 MV/cm were obtained using 400 μJ pulse energy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)
Place of PublicationPiscataway, N.J.
PublisherIEEE
ISBN (Print)9781557529725
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jun 2013
EventCLEO: Science and Innovations, CLEO_SI 2013 - San Jose, CA, United Kingdom
Duration: 9 Jun 201314 Jun 2013

Conference

ConferenceCLEO: Science and Innovations, CLEO_SI 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CitySan Jose, CA
Period9/06/1314/06/13

Keywords

  • terahertz wave generation
  • optical pumping
  • photoionisation

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