Abstract
Ultrafast laser-plasma interactions driven by ultrashort terawatt laser pulses are shown to give rise to a bright multioctave microwave radiation, whose polarization and spatial mode structure provides a sensitive probe for laser-driven plasma electrodynamics, helping detect the symmetries of plasma currents and signatures of multiple ionization. Polarization mode structure of this radiation is dominated, as polarization-resolved measurements show, by a radially polarized mode, indicating the significance of ponderomotively driven plasma currents as sources of microwave emission. Angle-resolved analysis of microwave supercontinua reveals regimes in which the microwave emission is drastically enhanced, via coherence buildup, manifested in a well-resolved Cherenkov-emission cone.
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