Jiayu Zhao, Weiwei Liu, Shichang Li, Dan Lu, Yizhu Zhang, Yan Peng, Yiming Zhu, Songlin Zhuang, "Clue to a thorough understanding of terahertz pulse generation by femtosecond laser filamentation," Photonics Res. 6, 296 (2018)

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Fig. 1. Schematic of the experimental setup and the coordinate system defined in this work. Inset: the recorded (a) E THz , X , (b) E THz , Y , and the corresponding (c) E THz , o , (d) E THz , e as a function of θ .

Fig. 2. From top to bottom: simulation outcomes (lines) of 4WM, PC, 4WM + PC, and 4WM + PC + 1DND, together with experimental results (black circles) for (a) A THz , o and (b) A THz , e .

Fig. 3. (a) N e as a function of θ . Black open circles: experiment; red line: simulation. (b) KE measured THz beam diameter d inside the plasma column and its frequency dependence at three θ values.
![(a) Side CCD images of the plasma filaments [insets b1 and b2, with maximums pointed by arrows in Fig. 3(a)], and the corresponding radial Ne distributions (experiment denoted by black open circles versus Gaussian fitting denoted by red lines). (b) Re[ϵr] distribution with the definition of 2a.](/Images/icon/loading.gif)
Fig. 4. (a) Side CCD images of the plasma filaments [insets b 1 and b 2 , with maximums pointed by arrows in Fig. 3(a) ], and the corresponding radial N e distributions (experiment denoted by black open circles versus Gaussian fitting denoted by red lines). (b) Re [ ϵ r ] distribution with the definition of 2 a .

Fig. 5. Normalized | E r | 2 distributions given by 1DND model in case of N e = b 1 and b 2 for (a) 0.35, (b) 0.7, and (c) 1.4 THz.

Fig. 6. (a) Variations of the confined THz amplitude ratio η along θ at 0.35, 0.7, and 1.4 THz, respectively. (b) FWHM of THz spectra as a function of θ (inset) and two representative THz spectra with FWHM pointed by green arrows.

Fig. 7. Coordinate system defined in this appendix.

Fig. 12. Calculation results of E 2 ω , e E ω , k E ω , l / E ω 4 .

Fig. 13. Results of simulations via the combination of 4WM and PC models with different amplitude ratios of 0 ∶ 1 , 1 ∶ 1 , and 2 ∶ 1 , for (a) A THz , o and (b) A THz , e , along with the experimental results (black solid circles).

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