Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Abstract-High field terahertz pulse generation from plasma wakefield driven by tailored laser pulses



Zi-Yu Chen
National Key Laboratory of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics, Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China 


A scheme to generate high field terahertz (THz) pulses by using tailored laser pulses interaction with a gas target is proposed. The laser wakefield based THz source is emitted from the asymmetric laser shape induced plasma transverse transient net currents. Particle-in-cell simulations show that THz emission with electric filed strength over 1 GV/cm can be obtained with incident laser at 1×1019W/cm2 level, and the corresponding energy conversion efficiency is more than 10−4. The intensity scaling holds up to high field strengths. Such a source also has a broad tunability range in amplitude, frequency spectra, and temporal shape.
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