• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 51, Issue 5, 20210361 (2022)
Haiwei Du1、2 and Xu Chen 2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Testing (Ministry of Education), Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China
  • 2School of Measuring and Optical Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20210361 Cite this Article
    Haiwei Du, Xu Chen . THz generation from slow turn-on, rapid turn-off femtosecond laser pulses interaction with gas plasma[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(5): 20210361 Copy Citation Text show less
    The slow turn-on, rapid turn-off laser pulse (blue line), its SH pulse (red line), their combined pulse (black line), and a normal pulse shape in the temporal domain (purple dashed line). (a) is the whole figure, and (b) is its magnified partition from −50 fs to −40 fs
    Fig. 1. The slow turn-on, rapid turn-off laser pulse (blue line), its SH pulse (red line), their combined pulse (black line), and a normal pulse shape in the temporal domain (purple dashed line). (a) is the whole figure, and (b) is its magnified partition from −50 fs to −40 fs
    Plasma currents produced by the two-color normal laser pulses and the shaped laser pulses(The other parameters are introduced in the text)
    Fig. 2. Plasma currents produced by the two-color normal laser pulses and the shaped laser pulses(The other parameters are introduced in the text)
    Temporal waveforms of the THz pulses (a) and their frequency spectra (b) produced by the normal laser pulses and the shaped laser pulses
    Fig. 3. Temporal waveforms of the THz pulses (a) and their frequency spectra (b) produced by the normal laser pulses and the shaped laser pulses
    (a) Evolution of the THz peak amplitude with the phase difference; (b) All the THz pulses in the temporal with different phases in two-dimension (Note that the THz pulses are normalized in the (b) in order to show the evolution clearly)
    Fig. 4. (a) Evolution of the THz peak amplitude with the phase difference; (b) All the THz pulses in the temporal with different phases in two-dimension (Note that the THz pulses are normalized in the (b) in order to show the evolution clearly)
    Relations between the THz peak amplitude and the laser intensity (The normal two-color laser scheme and the special shaped laser pulse are plotted together to show their difference)
    Fig. 5. Relations between the THz peak amplitude and the laser intensity (The normal two-color laser scheme and the special shaped laser pulse are plotted together to show their difference)
    THz peak amplitude changes with the increase of the parameter τ0 (The other parameters are same to that used in the Fig. 3)
    Fig. 6. THz peak amplitude changes with the increase of the parameter τ0 (The other parameters are same to that used in the Fig. 3)
    Haiwei Du, Xu Chen . THz generation from slow turn-on, rapid turn-off femtosecond laser pulses interaction with gas plasma[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(5): 20210361
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