Terahertz emission from a femtosecond laser focus in a two-color scheme

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-26

  Balakin, Alexey V ^a   Borodin, Alexander V ^a   Kotelnikov, Igor A ^b   Shkurinov, Alexander P ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE; FILAMENTS (LAMP); LASER THEORY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ANGULAR DIAGRAM; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; GAS PRESSURES; LASER FIELDS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PLASMA FILAMENTS; PONDEROMOTIVE FORCES; RADIATION PRESSURE; SECOND HARMONICS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ EMISSIONS; TRANSIENT PHOTOCURRENTS; TWO-COLOR;

LEAKAGE (FLUID);

EID: 75149184901     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000016     Document Type: Article

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