Conical Forward THz Emission from Femtosecond-Laser-Beam Filamentation in Air

Ciro d'Amico; Aurélien Houard; Michel Franco; Bernard Prade; André Mysyrowicz; Arnaud Couairon; Vladimir Tikhonchuk

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.235002

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Conical Forward THz Emission from Femtosecond-Laser-Beam Filamentation in Air

Ciro d'Amico ¹ Aurélien Houard ¹ Michel Franco ¹ Bernard Prade ¹ André Mysyrowicz ^{1, *} Arnaud Couairon ² Vladimir Tikhonchuk ³

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1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée

2 CPHT - Centre de Physique Théorique [Palaiseau]

3 CELIA - Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications

Abstract : We attribute a strong forward directed THz emission from femtosecond laser filaments in air to a transition-Cherenkov emission from the plasma space charge moving behind the ionization front at light velocity. Distant targets can be easily irradiated by this new source of THz radiation.

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Physics [physics] / Physics [physics] / Optics [physics.optics]

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