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Ionization-induced conversion of ultrashort Bessel beam to terahertz pulse
1Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia.
Optics Letters
|January 19, 2010
Abstract:
We examine the conical terahertz emission from the superluminous ionization front created in air by an axicon-focused femtosecond laser pulse. We develop the theoretical model that explains the experimental results and predicts new possibilities to control terahertz pulse parameters.
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