• DocumentCode
    3008026
  • Title

    Detection of Pulsed Terahertz Waves Using Ambient Air as the Sensor

  • Author

    Dai, Jianming ; Xie, Xu ; Zhang, X.-C.

  • Author_Institution
    Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report the first demonstration of both incoherent and coherent detection of pulsed terahertz waves using ambient air or laser-induced air plasma as the sensor through a third-order nonlinear optical process with femtosecond laser pulses.
  • Keywords
    measurement by laser beam; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse generation; submillimetre wave detectors; ambient air; coherent detection; femtosecond laser pulses; incoherent detection; laser-induced air plasma; optical sensor; pulsed terahertz wave detection; third-order nonlinear optical harmonic generation; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Optical beams; Optical mixing; Optical pulse generation; Optical sensors; Plasma measurements; Plasma waves; Probes; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452768
  • Filename
    4452768