External electric field control of THz pulse generation in ambient air

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16573-16580

  Sun, Wen Feng ^a,b   Zhou, Yun Song ^a,b   Wang, Xin Ke ^c   Zhang, Yan ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Key Lab for Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging   (China)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

COSINE FUNCTIONS; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; EXTERNAL FIELDS; INCIDENT PULSE; LASER INDUCED; LOW ENERGY REGIONS; THEORETICAL MODELING; THZ PULSE GENERATIONS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GAS; HEAT; LASER; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GASES; HOT TEMPERATURE; LASERS; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 54249100428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/oe.16.016573     Document Type: Article

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