Effect of magnetic field on THz radiation generation by self-focusing of a super Gaussian laser beam in a rippled density plasma

Over the past three decades, much attention has been devoted to improving new methods to generate terahertz (THz) radiation. By providing ponderomotive nonlinearity in ionized plasma, the excitation of nonlinearity by laser-based techniques has emerged as a promising way for THz generation. In this...

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Main Authors: Mitra Amouamouha, Farhad Bakhtiari, Bijan Ghafary
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Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2024-12-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0239903
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description Over the past three decades, much attention has been devoted to improving new methods to generate terahertz (THz) radiation. By providing ponderomotive nonlinearity in ionized plasma, the excitation of nonlinearity by laser-based techniques has emerged as a promising way for THz generation. In this paper, the concept of self-focusing of super-Gaussian laser beams has been introduced as an optimal way to generate THz radiation in plasma with a particular outlook toward the effect of applying a magnetic field to the plasma. Our analysis considers expanding the dielectric function and its higher order terms as well as paraxial ray approximation. As can be seen, magnetic field is an appropriate tool to increase the efficiency of THz self-focusing by inducing the resonance effect.
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spelling doaj-art-e19c4c0725314f08abbfc21472fa90622025-08-20T02:56:31ZengAIP Publishing LLCAIP Advances2158-32262024-12-011412125112125112-1010.1063/5.0239903Effect of magnetic field on THz radiation generation by self-focusing of a super Gaussian laser beam in a rippled density plasmaMitra Amouamouha0Farhad Bakhtiari1Bijan Ghafary2Department of Physics, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, IranDepartment of Physics, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, IranDepartment of Physics, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, IranOver the past three decades, much attention has been devoted to improving new methods to generate terahertz (THz) radiation. By providing ponderomotive nonlinearity in ionized plasma, the excitation of nonlinearity by laser-based techniques has emerged as a promising way for THz generation. In this paper, the concept of self-focusing of super-Gaussian laser beams has been introduced as an optimal way to generate THz radiation in plasma with a particular outlook toward the effect of applying a magnetic field to the plasma. Our analysis considers expanding the dielectric function and its higher order terms as well as paraxial ray approximation. As can be seen, magnetic field is an appropriate tool to increase the efficiency of THz self-focusing by inducing the resonance effect.http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0239903
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Effect of magnetic field on THz radiation generation by self-focusing of a super Gaussian laser beam in a rippled density plasma
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title Effect of magnetic field on THz radiation generation by self-focusing of a super Gaussian laser beam in a rippled density plasma
title_full Effect of magnetic field on THz radiation generation by self-focusing of a super Gaussian laser beam in a rippled density plasma
title_fullStr Effect of magnetic field on THz radiation generation by self-focusing of a super Gaussian laser beam in a rippled density plasma
title_full_unstemmed Effect of magnetic field on THz radiation generation by self-focusing of a super Gaussian laser beam in a rippled density plasma
title_short Effect of magnetic field on THz radiation generation by self-focusing of a super Gaussian laser beam in a rippled density plasma
title_sort effect of magnetic field on thz radiation generation by self focusing of a super gaussian laser beam in a rippled density plasma
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0239903
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