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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 128, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.174802
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- Grand Equipement de Calcul Intensif (GENCI) [A0070506129, A0080507594]
- Agence Innovation Defense
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Through multidimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we demonstrate the generation of high-field THz bursts from helium gas plasmas embedded in strong magnetic fields. Adjusting the plasma density and selecting a suitable ratio between relativistic electron cyclotron and plasma frequencies are necessary for efficient THz generation.
Relativistic interactions between ultraintense (>10(18) Wcm(-2)) laser pulses and magnetized underdense plasmas are known to produce few-cycle Cerenkov wake radiation in the terahertz (THz) domain. Using multidimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we demonstrate the possibility of generating high-field (> 100 GVm(-1)) THz bursts from helium gas plasmas embedded in strong (>100 T) magnetic fields perpendicular to the laser path. We show that two criteria must be satisfied for efficient THz generation. First, the plasma density should be adjusted to the laser pulse duration for a strong resonant excitation of the electromagnetic plasma wake. Second, in order to mitigate the damping of the transverse wake component across the density gradients at the plasma exit, the ratio of the relativistic electron cyclotron and plasma frequencies must be chosen slightly above unity, but not too large, lest the wake be degraded. Such conditions lead the outgoing THz wave to surpass in amplitude the electrostatic wakefield induced in a similar, yet unmagnetized plasma.
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