Nature Communications (Jun 2020)
Photon deceleration in plasma wakes generates single-cycle relativistic tunable infrared pulses
- Zan Nie,
- Chih-Hao Pai,
- Jie Zhang,
- Xiaonan Ning,
- Jianfei Hua,
- Yunxiao He,
- Yipeng Wu,
- Qianqian Su,
- Shuang Liu,
- Yue Ma,
- Zhi Cheng,
- Wei Lu,
- Hsu-Hsin Chu,
- Jyhpyng Wang,
- Chaojie Zhang,
- Warren B. Mori,
- Chan Joshi
Affiliations
- Zan Nie
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Chih-Hao Pai
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Jie Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Xiaonan Ning
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Jianfei Hua
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Yunxiao He
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Yipeng Wu
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Qianqian Su
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Shuang Liu
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Yue Ma
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Zhi Cheng
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Wei Lu
- Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
- Hsu-Hsin Chu
- Department of Physics, National Central University
- Jyhpyng Wang
- Department of Physics, National Central University
- Chaojie Zhang
- University of California Los Angeles
- Warren B. Mori
- University of California Los Angeles
- Chan Joshi
- University of California Los Angeles
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16541-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Plasma can act as strong nonlinear refractive index medium that can be exploited to downshift the frequency of a laser pulse. Here, the authors show the generation of single-cycle tunable infrared pulses using strong density gradients associated with laser-produced wakes in plasmas.
