Maker fringes in the terahertz radiation produced by a 2-color laser field in air

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11480-11485

  Liu, Y ^a   Houard, A ^a   Durand, M ^a   Prade, B ^a   Mysyrowicz, A ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

Author keywords

(190.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics; (260.5210) Photoionization; (300.6495) Spectroscopy, terahertz; (350.5400) Plasma

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE SHIFT; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FILAMENTATION; OSCILLATORY BEHAVIORS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PLASMA CHANNEL; PLASMA EMITTERS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; LASERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 67650517710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011480     Document Type: Article

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