Joule-Class Pulsed THz Sources from Microchannel Targets
Plasma Physics
2025-02-18 v3
Abstract
Inference of joule-class THz radiation sources from microchannel targets driven with hundreds of joule, picosecond lasers is reported. THz sources of this magnitude are useful for nonlinear pumping of matter and for charged-particle acceleration and manipulation. Microchannel targets demonstrate increased laser-THz conversion efficiency compared to planar foil targets, with laser energy to THz energy conversion up to approximately 0.9% in the best cases.
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@article{arxiv.2311.07718,
title = {Joule-Class Pulsed THz Sources from Microchannel Targets},
author = {G. Bruhaug and H. G. Rinderknecht and K. Weichman and M. VanDusen-Gross and J. P. Palastro and M. S. Wei and S. P. Regan and Y. E and K. Garriga and X. -C. Zhang and G. W. Collins and J. R. Rygg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07718},
year = {2025}
}
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9 pages, 2 figures