• DocumentCode
    3053867
  • Title

    Intense THz surface-wave generation from intense-laser interactions with metal wires

  • Author

    Tokita, Shigeki ; Hashida, Masaki ; Nagashima, Tomoharu ; Sakabe, Shuji

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Chem. Res., Kyoto Univ., Uji, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    June 30 2013-July 4 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Upon driving ultrafast electron current on a metal wire by irradiating a femtosecond laser pulse with an intensity of 1018 W/cm2, we obtained an intense half-cycle THz surface wave with electric field strength exceeding 1 MV/cm.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; microwave photonics; optical pulse generation; electric field strength; femtosecond laser pulse irradiation; intense half-cycle THz surface-wave generation; intense-laser interactions; metal wires; ultrafast electron current; Electric fields; Laser beams; Measurement by laser beam; Metals; Optical pulse generation; Surface waves; Wires;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6599981
  • Filename
    6599981