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We introduce THz Stark spectroscopy by using intense single-cycle terahertz pulses as the electric field source and monitoring the induced spectral response of an isotropic molecular ensemble with a coincident femtosecond supercontinuum…

Terahertz (THz) radiation has been observed from multiferroic BiFeO$_3$ thin films via ultrafast modulation of spontaneous polarization upon carrier excitation with illumination of femtosecond laser pulses. The radiated THz pulses from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 Kouhei Takahashi , Noriaki Kida , Masayoshi Tonouchi

Single-shot recording of terahertz electric signals has recently become possible at high repetition rates, by using the photonic time-stretch electro-optic sampling (EOS) technique. However the moderate sensitivity of time-stretch EOS is…

The results of high-field terahertz transmission experiments on n-doped silicon (carrier concentration of $8.7\times10^{16}$ cm$^{-3}$) are presented. We use terahertz pulses with electric field strengths up to 3.1 MV cm$^{-1}$ and a pulse…

The spectrum of terahertz (THz) emission in gases via ionizing two-color femtosecond pulses is analyzed by means of a semi-analytic model and finite-difference-time-domain simulations in 1D and 2D geometries. We show that produced THz…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 Eduardo Cabrera-Granado , Yxing Chen , Ihar Babushkin , Luc Bergé , Stefan Skupin

A one-dimensional photonic-crystal (PC) cavity with nanoholes is proposed for extremely enhancing the THz electric fields by utilizing the electromagnetic (EM) boundary conditions, where both slot effect (for the perpendicular component of…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Qijing Lu , Xiaogang Chen , Chang-Ling Zou , Shusen Xie

Lightwave-driven terahertz scanning tunnelling microscopy (THz-STM) is capable of exploring ultrafast dynamics across a wide range of materials with angstrom resolution. In contrast to scanning near-field optical microscopy, where photons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Vedran Jelic , Stefanie Adams , Mohamed Hassan , Kaedon Cleland-Host , S. Eve Ammerman , Tyler L. Cocker

Terahertz (THz) polarization detection provides critical insights into material properties but faces a fundamental constraint upon miniaturization: subwavelength metallic electrodes induce strong localization and distortion of the incident…

Narrowband terahertz (THz) radiation is crucial for high-resolution spectral identification, but a narrowband THz source driven by femtosecond (fs) laser has remained scarce. Here, it is computationally predicted that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Shihao Zhuang , Peter B. Meisenheimer , John T. Heron , Jia-Mian Hu

We show experimentally that the terahertz (THz) emission of a plasma, generated in air by a two-color laser pulse (containing a near IR frequency and its second harmonic), can be enhanced by the addition of an 800-nm pulse. We observed…

Streaking of photoelectrons with optical lasers has been widely used for temporal characterization of attosecond extreme ultraviolet pulses. Recently, this technique has been adapted to characterize femtosecond x-ray pulses in free-electron…

We study the effect of a surface modification at the interface between metallic electrodes and semiconducting substrate in Semi-Insulating GaAs (SI-GaAs) based photoconductive emitters (PCE) on the emission of Tera-Hertz (THz) radiation. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Abhishek Singh , Harshad Surdi , V. V. Nikesh , S. S. Prabhu , G. H. Döhler

In this work, the detection of terahertz (THz) pulse via different schemes of THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS), including electro-optic sampling (EOS) and photoconductive sampling (PCS), has been reviewed by insisting on its…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-17 Jiayu Zhao

Measuring terahertz waveforms in terahertz spectroscopy often relies on electrooptic sampling employing a ZnTe crystal. Although the nonlinearities in such zincblende semiconductors induced by intense terahertz pulses have been studied at…

Microscopic understanding of low-frequency molecular motions in liquids has been a longstanding goal in soft-matter science. So far, such low-frequency motions have mostly been accessed indirectly by off-resonant optical pulses. A more…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-26 Mohsen Sajadi , Martin Wolf , Tobias Kampfrath

Terahertz (THz) communication is a key enabler for 6G systems, offering ultra-wide bandwidth and unprecedented data rates. However, THz signal propagation differs significantly from lower-frequency bands due to severe free space path loss,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 John Song , Lihao Zhang , Feng Ye , Haijian Sun

The intense terahertz (THz) pulses facilitate the observation of various nonlinear optical effects and manipulation of material properties. In this work, we report a convenient approach that can produce strong broadband terahertz pulses…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-08 Yuxuan Wei , Jiaming Le , Chuanshan Tian

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) employs sub-picosecond pulses to probe dielectric properties of materials giving as a result a 3-dimensional hyperspectral data cube. The spatial resolution of THz images is primarily limited by…

Terahertz (THz)-based electron manipulation has recently been shown to hold tremendous promise as a technology for manipulating and driving the next-generation of compact ultrafast electron sources. Here, we demonstrate an ultrafast…

Terahertz (THz) generation by optical rectification in LiNbO$_3$ (LN) is a widely used technique for generating intense THz radiation. The spatiotemporal characterization of THz pulses from these sources is currently limited to far-field…