Photonics (Apr 2023)

Directivity Control of Terahertz Radiation from Single-Color Filament Plasma with Polypropylene Pipe

  • Daria Mokrousova,
  • Leonid Seleznev,
  • Dmitrii Pushkarev,
  • Georgy Rizaev,
  • Maximilian Levus,
  • Andrey Koribut,
  • Yakov Grudtsyn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10040443
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
p. 443

Abstract

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Two-dimensional angular distribution of terahertz emission from single-color filamentation of laser pulses is experimentally studied. The use of a polypropylene pipe makes it possible to transform the angular pattern of terahertz radiation from the original hollow-cone one to a more preferable unimodal structure within the terahertz frequency range. It has been shown that propagation in a dielectric pipe can significantly (up to several orders of magnitude) increase the terahertz radiation amplitude at a required distance. We have also experimentally demonstrated that bending the pipe allows us to control the direction of the terahertz radiation propagation.

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