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High-energy terahertz pulses are challenging to produce due to the low conversion efficiency and limited optical damage threshold of nonlinear crystals. Here, we describe the high-efficiency generation of terahertz radiation pulses with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Sida Cao , Matthew R. Edwards

The exploration of Terahertz (THz) waves has captivated researchers across diverse scientific disciplines such as physics, spectroscopy, chemistry, biology, and engineering, driven by the myriad applications these waves offer. Within this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 A. A. Molavi Choobini , S. S. Ghaffari-Oskooei , M. Shahmansouri , F. M. Aghamir

Femtosecond laser filament generates strong terahertz (THz) pulse in air. In this paper, THz pulse waveform generated by femtosecond laser filament has been experimentally investigated as a function of the length of the filament.…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-22 Jiayu Zhao , Yizhu Zhang , Zhi Wang , Wei Chu , Bin Zeng , Ya Cheng , Zhizhan Xu , Weiwei Liu

Near-field imaging with terahertz (THz) waves is emerging as a powerful technique for fundamental research in photonics and across physical and life sciences. Spatial resolution beyond the diffraction limit can be achieved by collecting THz…

We numerically investigate the use of strong THz radiation in assisting single attosecond pulse generation by few-cycle, 800 nm laser pulses. We optimize focusing conditions to generate short and powerful single attosecond pulses of…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-14 Emeric Balogh , Katalin Kovács , Valer Tosa , Katalin Varjú

A laser pulse composed of a fundamental and properly phased second harmonic exhibits an asymmetric electric field that can drive a time-dependent current of photoionized electrons. The current produces an ultrashort burst of terahertz (THz)…

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

In spintronic terahertz emitters, THz radiation is generated by exciting an ultrafast spin current through femtosecond laser excitation of a ferromagnetic-nonmagnetic metallic heterostructure. Although an extensive phenomenological…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-22 Francesco Foggetti , Peter M. Oppeneer

We demonstrate theoretically that ultrafast heating of metal nanoparticles by the laser pulse should lead to the generation of coherent terahertz (THz) radiation during the heat redistribution process. It is shown that after the femtosecond…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-22 Daniil Fadeev , Ivan Oladyshkin , Vyacheslav Mironov

We show that the transverse component of the wakefield can be produced with the application of an external magnetic field that generates radiation in the THz range. For this, we carry out analytical and numerical calculations to evaluate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Divya Singh , Hitendra K Malik

Terahertz (THz) waves have been significantly developed in the last fifteen years because of their great potential for applications in industrial and scientific communities1,2. The unique properties of THz waves as transparency for numerous…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Blanchard , A. Doi , T. Tanaka , H. Hirori , H. Tanaka , Y. Kadoya , K. Tanaka

High-power, continuously tunable narrowband terahertz (THz) sources are essential for advancing nonlinear optics, THz-driven material dynamics, and ultrafast spectroscopy. Conventional techniques typically impose a trade-off between pulse…

THz radiation promises breakthrough advances in compact advanced accelerators due to the high frequency and GV/m fields achievable, orders of magnitude larger than in conventional radiofrequency (RF) based accelerators. Compared to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Emma Curry , Siara Fabbri , Jared Maxson , Pietro Musumeci , Avraham Gover

The two-color laser field scheme for broad-band terahertz (THz) radiation from air has been intensively and broadly investigated due to the simplicity in technology and relative high yield efficiency. Experiments showed that the detected…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Nan Li , Wei-Min Wang

Dense micron-sized electron plasmas, such as those generated upon irradiation of nanostructured metallic surfaces by intense femtosecond laser pulses, constitute a rich playground to study light-matter interactions, many-body phenomena, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Eduardo J. C. Dias , I. Madan , S. Gargiulo , F. Barantani , M. Yannai , G. M. Vanacore , I. Kaminer , F. Carbone , F. Javier García de Abajo

Applications ranging from nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy to remote sensing require broadband and intense THz radiation which can be generated by focusing two-color laser pulses into a gas. In this setup, THz radiation originates from the…

Backward terahertz radiation can be produced by a high-intensity laser normally incident upon an underdense plasma. It is found that terahertz radiation is generated by electrons refluxing along the bubble shell. These shell electrons have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 J. F. Qu , X. F. Li , X. Y. Liu , P. Liu , Y , J. Song , Z. Fu , Q. Yu , Q. Kong

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…

High-order harmonic generation by few-cycle 800 nm laser pulses in neon gas in the presence of a strong terahertz (THz) field is investigated numerically with propagation effects taken into account. Our calculations show that the…

We present a combined theoretical and experimental study of spatio-temporal propagation effects in terahertz (THz) generation in gases using two-color ionizing laser pulses. The observed strong broadening of the THz spectra with increasing…