Terahertz wave air photonics: Terahertz wave generation and detection with laser-induced gas plasma

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 183-190

  Dai, Jianming ^a   Liu, Jingle ^a   Zhang, Xi Cheng ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband terahertz (THz) source; coherent control; laser induced gas plasma; photoionization; remote THz wave sensing

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND TERAHERTZ; COHERENT CONTROL; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; GASEOUS MEDIA; LASER-INDUCED GAS PLASMA; LASER-INDUCED GAS PLASMAS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; REMOTE THZ WAVE SENSING; TERAHERTZ WAVE GENERATION; THZ GENERATION; THZ WAVES; TWO-COLOR EXCITATION; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

PHOTOIONIZATION; PLASMAS; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

EID: 79951554380     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2047007     Document Type: Article

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