Title :
Directionality control of the THz radiation from two filaments
Author :
Mitryukovskiy, S.I. ; Liu, Yanbing ; Houard, Aurelien ; Prade, Bernard ; Mysyrowicz, A.
Author_Institution :
Lab. d´Opt. Appl., Ecole Polytech., Palaiseau, France
Abstract :
In recent years great progress has been made on remote generation and detection of THz radiation produced in air by intense femtosecond laser pulses. We present here results showing that it is possible to control the directionality of the Terahertz radiation emitted by two adjacent femtosecond laser filaments formed in air. Calculations for two neighboring filaments predict that the THz emission directionality can be controlled by the delay between the two driven laser pulses.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; microwave photonics; terahertz wave detectors; terahertz wave generation; THz emission; THz radiation detection; THz radiation directionality control; THz radiation generation; femtosecond laser filaments; intense femtosecond laser pulses; Delay effects; Delays; Detectors; Gases; Laser theory; Mach-Zehnder interferometers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0593-5
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6800801
