Generation of terahertz radiation from ionizing two-color laser pulses in Ar filled metallic hollow waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9658-9663

  Babushkin, I ^a   Skupin, S ^b,c   Herrmann, J ^d  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; WAVEGUIDES;

FEMTOSECOND PULSE; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; LOW FREQUENCY; NEAR-INFRARED PULSE; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SINGLE CYCLE; SPECTRAL FILTERING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THZ RADIATION; TWO-COLOR; TWO-COLOR LASER PULSE;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77952052158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009658     Document Type: Article

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