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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 9, 1562(2023)

Interaction of colliding laser pulses with gas plasma for broadband coherent terahertz wave generation

Yuxuan Chen¹, Yuhang He¹, Liyuan Liu^1,2, Zhen Tian^1,3, and Jianming Dai^1、*

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¹Center for Terahertz Waves and School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

²e-mail: lyliuma@tju.edu.cn

³e-mail: tianzhen@tju.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Feb. 16, 2023

Accepted: Jul. 4, 2023

Published Online: Aug. 28, 2023

The Author Email: Jianming Dai (jianmingdai@tju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.487934

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology