Initial carrier-envelope phase of few-cycle pulses determined by THz emission from air plasma
Optics
2015-06-16 v1
Abstract
The evolution of THz waveform generated in air plasma provides a sensitive probe to the variation of the carrier envelope phase (CEP) of propagating intense few-cycle pulses. Our experimental observation and calculation reveal that the number and positions of the inversion of THz waveform are dependent on the initial CEP, which is near 0.5{\pi} constantly under varied input pulse energies when two inversions of THz waveform in air plasma become one. This provides a method of measuring the initial CEP in an accuracy that is only limited by the stability of the driving few-cycle pulses.
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@article{arxiv.1307.1526,
title = {Initial carrier-envelope phase of few-cycle pulses determined by THz emission from air plasma},
author = {Rongjie Xu and Ya Bai and Liwei Song and Peng Liu and Ruxin Li and Zhizhan Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.1526},
year = {2015}
}
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13 pages, 4 figures