Tuning and focusing THz pulses by shaping the pump laser beam profile in a nonlinear crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 592-597

  D'Amico, Ciro ^a   Tondusson, Marc ^a   Degert, Jérome ^a   Freysz, Eric ^a  

^a UMR 5798   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPING (LASER); ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CONCENTRIC CIRCLES; FEMTOSECOND (FS) LASER; INTERMEDIATE FIELDS; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; OPTICAL RECTIFICATIONS; PROPAGATION AXIS; TERAHERTZ PULSE; ZINC TELLURIDES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 58749087510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000592     Document Type: Article

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