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High harmonic generation (HHG) in solids could enable attosecond and ultraviolet light sources with high compactness, great controllability and rich functions. However, the HHG process is accompanied by a quite large wavevector mismatch…
Terahertz (THz) waves have attracted attention as carrier waves for next-generation wireless communications (6G). Electronic THz emitters are widely used in current mobile communications; however, they may face technical limitations in 6G…
Spintronic terahertz (THz) emitter provides the advantages such as apparently broader spectrum, significantly lower cost, and more flexibility in compared with the commercial THz emitters, and thus attracts great interests recently. In past…
Terahertz (THz) communication has emerged as a key enabler for sixth-generation (6G) networks, offering ultrawide bandwidths to support data-intensive applications such as holographic telepresence and immersive extended reality. Recent…
The terahertz (THz) spectral domain offers a myriad of applications spanning chemical spectroscopy, medicine, security and imaging[1]. It has also recently become a playground for fundamental studies of light-matter interactions [2-6]. THz…
Irradiation of a thin metallic wire with an intense femtosecond laser pulse creates a strong discharge wave that travels as a narrow pulse along the wire surface. The travelling discharge efficiently emits secondary radiation with spectral…
We show that a laser at threshold can be utilized to generate the class of coherent and transform-limited waveforms $\left(vt-z\right)^{m}e^{i\left(kz-\omega t\right)}$ at optical frequencies.We derive these properties analytically and…
Coherent terahertz (THz) emission is emerging as a powerful new tool to probe symmetry breakings in quantum materials. This method relies on second order optical nonlinearities and is complementary to second harmonic generation…
We demonstrate a compact two-chip terahertz-emitting vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (TECSEL) source, which provides 1-THz output based on intracavity frequency conversion of dual-wavelength emission in a periodically-poled…
Although the frequency shift and odd-even intensity modulation in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) have both been observed for asymmetric laser-target systems, they are typically studied as two separate phenomena. In this Letter, we…
Optically excited electron-hole pairs, driven by a strong terahertz (THz) field, create high-sidebands in the optical spectrum. The sideband spectrum exhibits a 'plateau' up to a cutoff of 3.17Up, where Up is the ponderomotive energy. This…
We demonstrate second harmonic generation in photonic crystal nanocavities fabricated in the semiconductor gallium phosphide. We observe second harmonic radiation at 750 nm with input powers of only nanowatts coupled to the cavity and…
Conventional approaches to terahertz (THz) pulse generation are restricted by the Fourier-transform limit, which hinders the creation of sources that combine long duration with broad bandwidth--a capability crucial for many spectroscopic…
Diode lasers enable one to continuously cover the 730 to 1100 nm range as well as the 370 to 550 nm range by frequency doubling, but a large part of the electro-magnetic spectrum spanning from green to red remains accessible only through…
Waveform-controlled Terahertz (THz) radiation is of great importance due to its potential application in THz sensing and coherent control of quantum systems. We demonstrated a novel scheme to generate waveform-controlled THz radiation from…
Holographically-designed aperiodic lattices have proven to be an exciting engineering technique for achieving electrically switchable single- or multi-frequency emissions in terahertz (THz) semiconductor lasers. Here, we employ the…
Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a direct measure of the strength of second-order nonlinear optical effects, which also include frequency mixing and parametric oscillations. Natural and artificial materials with broken…
Optical second harmonic generation near a black hole horizon is suggested as a source of experimental information on quantum gravitational effects. While absent in the framework of general relativity, second harmonic generation appears in…
A calculation of the high-harmonic generation (HHG) in $\alpha$-quartz using the time-dependent density functional theory is reported. The inter-band process is attributed to the dominant in HHG above the band gap. The photon energy is set…
Generation of the monochromatic electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz (THz) range of frequencies for many decades remanes a chellenging task. Here we demonstrate the emission of monochromatic sub-THz radiation by coherent optical…