Quantum sensing with extreme light

M Kutas, BE Haase, F Riexinger… - Advanced Quantum …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Optical nonlinear conversion processes are ubiquitously applied to scientific as well as
industrial tasks. In particular, nonlinear processes are employed to generate radiation in …

Highly efficient terahertz pulse generation by optical rectification in stoichiometric and cryo-cooled congruent lithium niobate

WR Huang, SW Huang, E Granados, K Ravi… - Journal of modern …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We report, and review in detail, experiments resulting in a record 3.7% optical-to-terahertz
(THz) conversion efficiency by optical rectification (OR) in cryogenically cooled congruent …

Origins of THz Modes and Their IR Intensities in LiNbO3

F Zhang, HW Wang, M Hayashi… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
LiNbO3 crystals have been essential materials for generating freely propagating terahertz
(THz) pulses among other materials because of their excellent nonlinear optical properties …

Nonlinear interference in the strongly nondegenerate regime and Schmidt mode analysis

KA Kuznetsov, EI Malkova, RV Zakharov… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
The possibility to manage and control spectral and spatial properties of optical-terahertz
nonclassical fields generated in strongly nondegenerate parametric down-conversion is …

Quantum correlation between optical and terahertz photons generated under multimode spontaneous parametric down-conversion

GK Kitaeva, AA Leontyev, PA Prudkovskii - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We study conditions for the generation of strongly correlated photons of two extremely
different frequency ranges, optical and terahertz, via the spontaneous parametric down …

Current status of oxide dielectric materials for terahertz applications–an overview

M Dutta, XG Peralta, A Bhalla, R Guo - Integrated Ferroelectrics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Terahertz electromagnetic radiation, its generation, detection and material interaction is an
emerging field of study. Diverse range of researches is going on to explore and understand …

Study of SPDC spectra to reveal temperature dependences for optical-terahertz biphotons

TI Novikova, KA Kuznetsov, AA Leontyev… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Frequency-angular distributions of optical signals generated via spontaneous parametric
downconversion with the Stokes idler frequency shifts 0.2–5 THz are studied simultaneously …

Complex extraordinary dielectric function of Mg-doped lithium niobate crystals at terahertz frequencies

KA Kuznetsov, GK Kitaeva, SP Kovalev… - Applied Physics B, 2016 - Springer
We study the dispersion of the extraordinary dielectric function real and imaginary parts in
the wide terahertz-frequency range of the lowest polariton branch for bulk LiNbO 3 and Mg …

A method of calibration of terahertz wave brightness under nonlinear-optical detection

GK Kitaeva, SP Kovalev, AN Penin, AN Tuchak… - Journal of Infrared …, 2011 - Springer
A new method is proposed for calibration of the terahertz wave spectral brightness. The
method is based on the use of quantum and thermal field fluctuations as intrinsic references …

Direct detection of the idler THz radiation generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion

GK Kitaeva, VV Kornienko, KA Kuznetsov, IV Pentin… - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We study parametric down-conversion (PDC) of optical laser radiation in the strongly
frequency non-degenerate regime which is promising for the generation of quantum …