Single-cycle strong terahertz pulse generation from a vacuum-plasma interface driven by intense laser pulses

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Dong, X G ^a   Sheng, Z M ^a,b   Wu, H C ^c   Wang, W M ^a   Zhang, J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION FREQUENCY; FIELD STRENGTHS; FREQUENCY TUNABILITY; INTENSE LASER PULSE; LASER PONDEROMOTIVE FORCE; LASER-PULSE DURATIONS; MEGAWATT POWER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PLASMA FREQUENCIES; PLASMA SURFACES; SINGLE CYCLE; TENUOUS PLASMA; TERAHERTZ PULSE; TERAHERTZ PULSE GENERATION; TERAHERTZ SOURCES; THEORETICAL MODELS; ULTRA-SHORT INTENSE LASER PULSE;

ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE; LASER PULSES; LASERS; PLASMA WAVES; PLASMAS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 66349085305     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.046411     Document Type: Article

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