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 …

[PDF][PDF] Oxide nonlinear crystals: optical properties and phase-matching for terahertz wave generation

OI Potaturkin, VD Antsygin… - EPJ Web of …, 2018 - epj-conferences.org
Oxide nonlinear crystals such as beta-barium borate (β-BaB2O4 or β-BBO), potassium
titanyl phosphate (KTiOPO4 or KTP), potassium titanyl arsenate (KTiOAsO4 or KTA) are …

Generation of frequency-tunable pulsed terahertz radiation by a Cr: forsterite laser system with an acoustooptical control of the pulse temporal profile

AV Ovchinnikov, OV Chefonov… - Quantum …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the experimental results on generating pulsed terahertz (THz) radiation, frequency-
tunable within the range $0.5 {-} 2\{\text {THz}} $. The THz pulse generation was …

Nanosecond terahertz optical parametric oscillator with a novel quasi phase matching scheme in lithium niobate

D Molter, M Theuer, R Beigang - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We present an optical parametric oscillator pumped by a single mode Q-switched
nanosecond Nd: YVO_4 laser for terahertz generation in periodically poled lithium niobate …

Terahertz nonlinear response in lithium niobate

T Hornung, KL Yeh, KA Nelson - International Conference on …, 2006 - opg.optica.org
THz SHG is observed in a patterned MgO: LiNbO 3 crystal using crossed THz polariton
waves generated by spatiotemporally shaped optical pulses. The experiment foreshadows …

Coherent terahertz control of antiferromagnetic spin waves

T Kampfrath, A Sell, G Klatt, A Pashkin, S Mährlein… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Ultrafast charge and spin excitations in the elusive terahertz regime, of the electromagnetic
spectrum play a pivotal role in condensed matter,,,,,,,,,,. The electric field of free-space …

The generation of high field terahertz radiation and its application in terahertz nonlinear spectroscopy

KL Yeh - 2009 - dspace.mit.edu
In this thesis research, I implemented a terahertz generation scheme that enables high-field
near-single-cycle terahertz (THz) pulse generation via optical rectification in a LiNbO3 (LN) …

Generation of THz radiation using bulk, periodically and aperiodically poled lithium niobate–Part 2: Experiments

JA L'huillier, G Torosyan, M Theuer, C Rau… - Applied Physics B, 2007 - Springer
Optical rectification of femtosecond pulses in nonlinear materials is an efficient method to
generate ultra-short terahertz (THz) pulses in a wide frequency range extending from 100 …

Electric and magnetic terahertz nonlinearities resolved on the sub-cycle scale

A Pashkin, A Sell, T Kampfrath… - New Journal of Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Table-top sources of intense multi-terahertz (THz) pulses have opened the door to studies of
extreme nonlinearities in the previously elusive mid-to far-infrared spectral regime. We …

Optical second harmonic generation induced by picosecond terahertz pulses in centrosymmetric antiferromagnet NiO

AV Ovchinnikov, OV Chefonov, MB Agranat… - JETP letters, 2016 - Springer
Optical second harmonic generation at the photon energy of 2ℏω= 2eV in the model
centrosymmetric antiferromagnet NiO irradiated with picosecond terahertz pulses (0.4–2.5 …