Experimental observation of optically generated unipolar electromagnetic precursors.


Journal

Optics express
ISSN: 1094-4087
Titre abrégé: Opt Express
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101137103

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
25 Apr 2022
Historique:
entrez: 27 4 2022
pubmed: 28 4 2022
medline: 28 4 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

It was recently predicted [Phys. Rev. A95(6), 063817 (2017) 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.063817] that an intense femtosecond laser pulse propagating in an electro-optic crystal and producing free carriers via multiphoton ionization can generate a unipolar electromagnetic precursor propagating ahead of the laser pulse. Here we report the experimental observation of this phenomenon in a GaP crystal excited by an amplified Ti:sapphire laser.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35473230
pii: 471558
doi: 10.1364/OE.455768
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

14978-14984

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