Review of intense terahertz radiation from relativistic laser-produced plasmas

GQ Liao, YT Li - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of sources for intense terahertz (THz)
pulses and an increasing number of their applications. The advent of laser pulses with …

Demonstration of coherent terahertz transition radiation from relativistic laser-solid interactions

GQ Liao, YT Li, YH Zhang, H Liu, XL Ge, S Yang… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
Coherent transition radiation in the terahertz (THz) region with energies of sub-mJ/pulse has
been demonstrated by relativistic laser-driven electron beams crossing the solid-vacuum …

Powerful laser-produced quasi-half-cycle THz pulses

AS Kuratov, AV Brantov, VF Kovalev, VY Bychenkov - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
The Maxwell equations-based 3D-analytical solution for the terahertz (THz) half-cycle
electromagnetic wave transition radiation pulse has been found. This solution describes …

Intense multicycle THz pulse generation from laser-produced nanoplasmas

M Kumar, HS Song, J Lee, D Park, H Suk, MS Hur - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We present a novel scheme to obtain robust, narrowband, and tunable THz emission using
a nano-dimensional overdense plasma target, irradiated by two counter-propagating …

Modeling terahertz emissions from energetic electrons and ions in foil targets irradiated by ultraintense femtosecond laser pulses

E Denoual, L Bergé, X Davoine, L Gremillet - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Terahertz (THz) emissions from fast electron and ion currents driven in relativistic,
femtosecond laser-foil interactions are examined theoretically. We first consider the radiation …

Smith–Purcell radiation from highly mobile carriers in 2D quantum materials

S Lu, A Nussupbekov, X **ong, WJ Ding… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Terahertz (THz) radiation has broad applications ranging from medical imaging to
spectroscopy. One viable source of high‐intensity THz radiation is the Smith–Purcell (SP) …

Relativistic-microwave theory of ball lightning

HC Wu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Ball lightning, a fireball sometimes observed during lightnings, has remained unexplained.
Here we present a comprehensive theory for the phenomenon: At the tip of a lightning stroke …

Intense terahertz radiation from relativistic laser–plasma interactions

GQ Liao, YT Li, C Li, H Liu, YH Zhang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of tabletop intense terahertz (THz) radiation sources is extremely
important for THz science and applications. This paper presents our measurements of …

Aligned copper nanorod arrays for highly efficient generation of intense ultra-broadband THz pulses

S Mondal, Q Wei, WJ Ding, HA Hafez, MA Fareed… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We demonstrate an intense broadband terahertz (THz) source based on the interaction of
relativistic-intensity femtosecond lasers with aligned copper nanorod array targets. For …

Enhanced coherent transition radiation from midinfrared-laser-driven microplasmas

PB Glek, AM Zheltikov - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
We present a particle-in-cell (PIC) analysis of terahertz (THz) radiation by ultrafast plasma
currents driven by relativistic-intensity laser pulses. We show that, while the I 0 λ 0 2 product …