Laser‐driven strong‐field terahertz sources

JA Fülöp, S Tzortzakis… - Advanced Optical Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A review on the recent development of intense laser‐driven terahertz (THz) sources is
provided here. The technologies discussed include various types of sources based on …

Highly scalable multicycle THz production with a homemade periodically poled macrocrystal

F Lemery, T Vinatier, F Mayet, R Aßmann… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
The THz regime is widely appealing across many disciplines including solid-state physics,
life sciences, and increasingly in particle acceleration. Multicycle THz pulses are typically …

TW-scale mid-infrared pulses near 3.3 μm directly generated by dual-chirped optical parametric amplification

Y Fu, B Xue, K Midorikawa, EJ Takahashi - Applied Physics Letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the generation of a 31 mJ mid-infrared (MIR) pulse with a repetition rate of 10
Hz near 3.3 μm by a dual-chirped optical parametric amplification (DC-OPA) scheme using …

Broadband and narrowband laser-based terahertz source and its application for resonant and non-resonant excitation of antiferromagnetic modes in NiO

OV Chefonov, AV Ovchinnikov, CP Hauri… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A versatile table-top high-intense source of terahertz radiation, enabling to generate pulses
of both broadband and narrowband spectra with a tunable frequency up to 3 THz is …

Efficient semiconductor multicycle terahertz pulse source

PS Nugraha, G Krizsán, G Polónyi… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Multicycle THz pulse generation by optical rectification in GaP semiconductor nonlinear
material is investigated by numerical simulations. It is shown that GaP can be an efficient …

Multicycle terahertz pulse generation by optical rectification in LiNbO3, LiTaO3, and BBO crystals

D Jang, KY Kim - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report multicycle, narrowband, terahertz radiation at 14.8 THz produced by phase-
matched optical rectification of femtosecond laser pulses in bulk lithium niobate (LiNbO_3) …

High efficiency terahertz generation in a multi-stage system

L Wang, A Fallahi, K Ravi, F Kärtner - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We describe a robust system for laser-driven narrowband terahertz generation with high
conversion efficiency in periodically poled Lithium Niobate (PPLN). In the multi-stage …

Single-cycle attosecond pulses by Thomson backscattering of terahertz pulses

G Tóth, Z Tibai, A Sharma, JA Fülöp, J Hebling - JOSA B, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The generation of single-cycle attosecond pulses based on Thomson scattering of terahertz
(THz) pulses is proposed. In the scheme, a high-quality relativistic electron beam, produced …

Performance comparison of lithium-niobate-based extremely high-field single-cycle terahertz sources

G Tóth, L Pálfalvi, S Turnár, Z Tibai, G Almási… - Chinese Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Tilted-pulse-front-pumping (TPFP) lithium-niobate terahertz (THz) pulse sources are widely
used in pump-probe and control experiments since they can generate broadband THz …

Frequency-comb-based laser system producing stable optical beat pulses with picosecond durations suitable for high-precision multi-cycle terahertz-wave generation …

DN Schimpf, HT Olgun, A Kalaydzhyan, Y Hua… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We generate temporally modulated optical pulses with a beat frequency of 255 GHz, a
duration of 360 ps, and a repetition rate of 2 MHz. The temporal envelope, beat frequency …