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Photonics Research
Vol. 11, Issue 6, 978 (2023)

Impact of laser chirp on the polarization of terahertz from two-color plasma

Sen Mou^1、*, Luca Tomarchio², Annalisa D’Arco^1、3, Marta Di Fabrizio², Salvatore Macis², Alessandro Curcio⁴, Luigi Palumbo^1、3, Stefano Lupi^2、5, and Massimo Petrarca^1、3

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¹INFN-Roma1 and Physics Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, Italy

²Physics Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 00185 Rome, Italy

³SBAI, Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 00161 Rome, Italy

⁴Centro de Laseres Pulsados (CLPU), 37185 Villamayor, Salamanca, Spain

⁵INFN-LNF, 00044 Frascati, Italy

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Sen Mou, Luca Tomarchio, Annalisa D’Arco, Marta Di Fabrizio, Salvatore Macis, Alessandro Curcio, Luigi Palumbo, Stefano Lupi, Massimo Petrarca. Impact of laser chirp on the polarization of terahertz from two-color plasma[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(6): 978 Copy Citation Text

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Sen Mou, Luca Tomarchio, Annalisa D’Arco, Marta Di Fabrizio, Salvatore Macis, Alessandro Curcio, Luigi Palumbo, Stefano Lupi, Massimo Petrarca. Impact of laser chirp on the polarization of terahertz from two-color plasma[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(6): 978

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