Intense ultrashort terahertz pulses: generation and applications

MC Hoffmann, JA Fülöp - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrashort terahertz pulses derived from femtosecond table-top sources have become a
valuable tool for time-resolved spectroscopy during the last two decades. Until recently, the …

Nonlinear photonic waveguides: A versatile platform for terahertz radiation generation (a review)

BN Carnio, O Moutanabbir… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Continued development in the areas of communication, security, medicine, and safety is
calling for terahertz‐wave technologies to evolve beyond laboratory research and into the …

Giant enhancement of THz-frequency optical nonlinearity by phonon polariton in ionic crystals

Y Lu, Q Zhang, Q Wu, Z Chen, X Liu, J Xu - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The field of nonlinear optics has grown substantially in past decades, leading to tremendous
progress in fundamental research and revolutionized applications. Traditionally, the optical …

Pulse sequences for efficient multi-cycle terahertz generation in periodically poled lithium niobate

K Ravi, DN Schimpf, FX Kärtner - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The use of laser pulse sequences to drive the cascaded difference frequency generation of
high energy, high peak-power and multi-cycle terahertz pulses in cryogenically cooled (100 …

Generation of high power tunable multicycle teraherz pulses

Z Chen, X Zhou, CA Werley, KA Nelson - Applied Physics Letters, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate generation of high-power, multicycle, and frequency-tunable terahertz
pulses with microjoule energies by tilting the intensity front of a quasi-sinusoidal intensity …

Broadband on-chip terahertz asymmetric waveguiding via phase-gradient metasurface

R Wang, Q Wu, W Cai, Q Zhang, H Xiong, B Zhang… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
As fundamental elements, optical diodes are required for on-chip optical communications
and computing. However, it is still a challenge to realize ultracompact devices working in the …

Time-resolved imaging of near-fields in THz antennas and direct quantitative measurement of field enhancements

CA Werley, K Fan, AC Strikwerda, SM Teo, X Zhang… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the interaction between terahertz waves and resonant antennas with sub-
cycle temporal and λ/100 spatial resolution. Depositing antennas on a LiNbO_3 waveguide …

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) …

Periodically intensity-modulated pulses by optical parametric amplification for multicycle tunable terahertz pulse generation

G Tóth, JA Fülöp, J Hebling - Optics Express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The superposition of signal and idler pulses in dual-chirped optical parametric amplification
is proposed for the efficient generation of intensity-modulated pulses with periodic …