Linzheng Wang, Zhelin Zhang, Siyu Chen, Yanping Chen, Xichen Hu, Mingyang Zhu, Wenchao Yan, Hao Xu, Lili Sun, Min Chen, Feng Liu, Liming Chen, Jie Zhang, Zhengming Sheng
We report the experimental measurement of millijoule terahertz (THz) radiation emitted in the backward direction from laser wakefields driven by a femtosecond laser pulse of few joules interacting with a gas target. By utilizing frequency-resolved energy measurement, it is found that the THz spectrum exhibits two peaks located at about 4.5 and 9.0 THz, respectively. In particular, the high frequency component emerges when the drive laser energy exceeds 1.26 J, at which electron acceleration in the forward direction is detected simultaneously...
April 19, 2024: Physical Review Letters