Bessel Terahertz Pulses from Superluminal Laser Plasma Filaments

Zhelin Zhang; Jiayang Zhang; Yanping Chen; Tianhao Xia; Linzheng Wang; Bonan Han; Feng He; Zhengming Sheng; Jie Zhang

doi:10.34133/2022/9870325

Bessel Terahertz Pulses from Superluminal Laser Plasma Filaments

doi: 10.34133/2022/9870325

a Tsung-Dao lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
b Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
c Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
d Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11774228, 12074250, 11991073, 11721091, and 12135009) and Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (16DZ2260200).

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Correspondence should be addressed to Yanping Chen

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- 收稿日期: 2021-12-14
- 修回日期: 2022-02-04
- 刊出日期: 2022-03-02

Bessel Terahertz Pulses from Superluminal Laser Plasma Filaments

a Tsung-Dao lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
b Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
c Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
d Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK

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摘要

摘要: Terahertz radiation with a Bessel beam profile is demonstrated experimentally from a two-color laser filament in air, which is induced by tailored femtosecond laser pulses with an axicon. The temporal and spatial distributions of Bessel rings of the terahertz radiation are retrieved after being collected in the far field. A theoretical model is proposed, which suggests that such Bessel terahertz pulses are produced due to the combined effects of the inhomogeneous superluminal filament structure and the phase change of the two-color laser components inside the plasma channel. These two effects lead to wavefront crossover and constructive/destructive interference of terahertz radiation from different plasma sources along the laser filament, respectively. Compared with other methods, our technique can support the generation of Bessel pulses with broad spectral bandwidth. Such Bessel pulses can propagate to the far field without significant spatial spreading, which shall provide new opportunities for terahertz applications.
- terahertz Bessel beams, laser plasmas, superluminal filamentation, nonlinear dipole array
Abstract: Terahertz radiation with a Bessel beam profile is demonstrated experimentally from a two-color laser filament in air, which is induced by tailored femtosecond laser pulses with an axicon. The temporal and spatial distributions of Bessel rings of the terahertz radiation are retrieved after being collected in the far field. A theoretical model is proposed, which suggests that such Bessel terahertz pulses are produced due to the combined effects of the inhomogeneous superluminal filament structure and the phase change of the two-color laser components inside the plasma channel. These two effects lead to wavefront crossover and constructive/destructive interference of terahertz radiation from different plasma sources along the laser filament, respectively. Compared with other methods, our technique can support the generation of Bessel pulses with broad spectral bandwidth. Such Bessel pulses can propagate to the far field without significant spatial spreading, which shall provide new opportunities for terahertz applications.
- terahertz Bessel beams, laser plasmas, superluminal filamentation, nonlinear dipole array