The smallness of the velocity \(v\) of laser-field-induced motion of electrons compared to the speed of light c is one of the fundamental physical factors limiting the efficiency of nonlinear optical processes in plasma media. It has been shown in this work that the use of intense ultrashort mid-infrared pulses makes it possible to significantly enhance a wide class of \(v{\text{/}}c\)-weak plasma nonlinearities primarily related to plasma currents induced by the laser field. This allows implementing laser plasma schemes of the efficient generation of coherent broadband terahertz and microwave radiation, i.e., terahertz–microwave supercontinuum.
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Calculations were performed with resources of the Computational Center, Moscow State University.
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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 18-72-10109, study of cascade spectral–temporal transformations of ultrashort laser pulses; project no. 20-12-00088, study on broadband nonlinear optics; project no. 19-72-10054, study on the optics of ultrashort pulses of highly supercritical peak power), by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project nos. 20-21-00131, 20-21-00140, 18-29-20031, and 19-02-00473), by the Welch Foundation (grant no. A-1801-20180324), and by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project no. 075-15-2020-801). M.V. Rozhko acknowledges the support of the Council of the President of the Russian Federation for State Support of Young Scientists and Leading Scientific Schools (project no. MK-3820.2019.2), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project nos. 20-32-90228 and 18-02-40034), and the Foundation for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics BASIS (project no. 18-2-6-157-1). P.B. Glek acknowledges the partial support of the Foundation for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics BASIS (project no. 20-2-10-2-1).
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Mitrofanov, A.V., Sidorov-Biryukov, D.A., Voronin, A.A. et al. Enhancement of Plasma Nonlinearities and Generation of a Microwave–Terahertz Supercontinuum in the Field of Subterawatt Mid-Infrared Pulses. Jetp Lett. 113, 301–307 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364021050076
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