Tailoring terahertz radiation by controlling tunnel photoionization events in gases

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Babushkin, I ^a   Skupin, S ^b,c   Husakou, A ^d   Kohler C ^b   Cabrera Granado, E ^b   Berge L ^e   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)

^e CEA DAM DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECONDS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FREE ELECTRON; IONIZATION EVENTS; LASER FIELDS; LINEAR DIFFRACTION THEORY; MULTI-COLORS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PUMP PULSE; SPECTRAL SHAPES; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TEMPORAL CONTROLS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THZ PULSE; THZ RADIATION; TUNNEL IONIZATION; TWO-COLOR LASER PULSE;

IONIZATION OF GASES; OPTICAL PUMPING; REMOTE SENSING; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84855385003     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/12/123029     Document Type: Article

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