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Polaritons in metals, semimetals, semiconductors, and polar insulators, with their extreme confinement of electromagnetic energy, provide many promising opportunities for enhancing typically weak light-matter interactions such as multipolar…

While the helical character of the edge channels responsible for charge transport in the quantum spin Hall regime of a two-dimensional topological insulator is by now well established, an experimental confirmation that the transport in the…

The interaction of terahertz (THz) radiation with high-frequency spin resonances in complex magnetic materials is central for modern ultrafast magnonics. Here we demonstrate strong variations of the excitation efficiency of the sub-THz…

This study shows that a terahertz (THz) wave can be generated from the (001) surface of cleaved Bi$_{\textrm{2}}$Se$_{\textrm{3}}$ and Cu-doped Bi$_{\textrm{2}}$Se$_{\textrm{3}}$ single crystals using 800 nm femtosecond pulses. The…

We are demonstrating the optical control of a specific state of the germanium telluride (GeTe) phase change material and its integration as control element for realizing extremely efficient optically reconfigurable THz devices. The…

We suggest a new class of hyperbolic metamaterials for THz frequencies based on multilayer graphene structures. We calculate the dielectric permittivity tensor of the effective nonlocal medium with a periodic stack of graphene layers and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Ivan Iorsh , Ivan Mukhin , Ilya Shadrivov , Pavel Belov , Yuri Kivshar

A promising route for the development of opto-elelctronic technology is to use terahertz radiation to modulate the optical properties of semiconductors. Here we demonstrate the dynamical control of photoluminescence (PL) emission in…

We report on terahertz emission from FeMnPt/Ru/FeMnPt and Pt/CoFeB/Ru/CoFeB/Pt synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) structures upon irradiation by a femtosecond laser; the former is via the anomalous Hall effect, whereas the latter is through…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-15 Qi Zhang , Yumeng Yang , Ziyan Luo , Yanjun Xu , Rongxiang Nie , Xinhai Zhang , Yihong Wu

We investigate terahertz (THz) radiation generation at the vacuum-plasma interface driven by the oblique incidence of s-polarized Gaussian laser pulse(s) on a semi-infinite underdense plasma.~Extending beyond the conventional…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Anjana K P , Rohit Kumar Srivastav , Mrityunjay Kundu

Coherent radiation with frequencies ranging from 0.3 to 30 THz has recently become accessible by femtosecond laser technology. Terahertz (THz) waves have already found many applications in spectroscopy and imaging, and they can be…

Interfaces between heavy metals (HMs) and antiferromagnetic insulators (AFIs) have recently become highly investigated and debated systems in the effort to create spintronic devices able to function at terahertz frequencies. Such…

We report on terahertz emission from a single layer ferromagnet which involves the generation of backflow nonthermal charge current from the ferromagnet/dielectric interface by femtosecond laser excitation and subsequent conversion of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Qi Zhang , Ziyan Luo , Hong Li , Yumeng Yang , Xinhai Zhang , Yihong Wu

The enhanced photonic spin hall effect (PSHE) plays a positive role in the flexible manipulation of photons. Here, by combining Dirac semimetals with Bragg reflector constructed by one-dimensional photonic crystal, we theoretically design a…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Keqiang Yin , Luzihao Li , Qijun Ma , Jie Jiang , Leyong Jiang

An analytical model is developed to predict the temporal evolution of the lattice polarization in ferroelectric nanomembranes upon the excitation by a terahertz (THz) electromagnetic pulse of an arbitrary waveform, and the concurrent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-04 Yujie Zhu , Aiden Ross , Xiangwei Guo , Venkatraman Gopalan , Long-Qing Chen , Jia-Mian Hu

We demonstrate terahertz (THz) harmonic generation across the Mott insulator-metal transition in rare-earth nickelates (RNiO$_3$, R = rare-earth atom). The THz harmonic generation is observed in all the three different phases with distinct…

Terahertz (THz) spin waves or their quanta, magnons, can be efficiently excited by acoustic phonons because these excitations have similar wavevectors in the THz regime. THz acoustic phonons can be produced using photoacoustic phenomena but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Shihao Zhuang , Xufeng Zhang , Yujie Zhu , Nian X. Sun , Chang-Beom Eom , Paul G. Evans , Jia-Mian Hu

Spin current flowing between femtosecond laser pulse (fsLP)-driven ferromagnetic metal and adjacent normal metal (NM) hosting strong spin-orbit coupling is invariably invoked to explain terahertz (THz) radiation believed to be emitted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Ali Kefayati , Yafei Ren , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch , Lars Gundlach , John Q. Xiao , Branislav K. Nikolic

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

We propose a design of a THz-frequency signal generator based on a layered structure consisting of a current-driven platinum (Pt) layer and a layer of an antiferromagnet (AFM) with easy-plane anisotropy, where the magnetization vectors of…

Femtosecond laser excitation of nanometer thin heterostructures comprising a heavy metal and a magnetically ordered material is known to result in the emission of terahertz radiation. However, the nature of the emitted radiation from heavy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Thomas W. J. Metzger , Peter Fischer , Takashi Kikkawa , Eiji Saitoh , Alexey V. Kimel , Davide Bossini