Abstract

We present a time-domain solution of the equations describing low-frequency radiation generation when a metal surface is irradiated by a non-damaging femtosecond optical pulse of s-polarized radiation. Ponderomotive force, drag current, and temperature gradient along the surface are found to be sources of the terahertz radiation. A comparison of these sources under typical experimental conditions reveals that both the drag current and the thermal gradient give similar contribution to the terahertz signal. The ponderomotive force effect is several times less than these two and exists only during the incident pulse.

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