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Using a canonical pump-probe experimental technique, we studied the terahertz (THz) waves generation and detection via optical rectification and mixing in Czochralski-grown periodically poled Mg:Y:LiNbO3 (PPLN) crystals. THz waves with…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. H. Ma , G. Kh. Kitaeva , I. I. Naumova , S. H. Tang

Electro-optical detection has proven to be a valuable technique to study temporal profiles of THz pulses with pulse durations down to femtoseconds. As the Coulomb field around a relativistic electron bunch resembles the current profile,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-06 B. Steffen , Ch. Gerth , M. Caselle , M. Felber , T. Kozak , D. R. Makowski , U. Mavrič , A. Mielczarek , P. Peier , K. Przygoda , L. Rota

Stable dissemination of terahertz (THz) signals over long distances is important for next-generation synchronization networks, radio astronomy, and high-capacity wireless systems. Optical fiber provides a low-loss platform for coherent…

In recent years, epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials have attracted much attention due to their unique properties that can be tuned under electrical and optical signals. Furthermore, they allow for a strong enhancement of a nonlinearity close…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-24 Jacek Gosciniak

We develop an energy-space density matrix framework to investigate the interaction of extremely short optical pulses (ESPs) with transparent conducting oxides (TCOs). This approach captures not only electron populations, material…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ieng-Wai Un , Subhajit Sarkar , Yonatan Sivan

Acousto-Optical Coherence Tomography (AOCT) is a variant of Acousto Optic Imaging (also called Ultrasound modulated Optical Tomography) that makes possible to get resolution along the ultrasound propagation axis $z$. We present here new…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-07 Max Lesaffre , Salma Farahi , François Ramaz , Michel Gross

Nonlinear terahertz (THz) spectroscopy relies on the interaction of matter with few-cycle THz pulses of electric field amplitudes up to megavolts/centimeter (MV/cm). In condensed-phase molecular systems, both resonant interactions with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Klaus Reimann , Michael Woerner , Thomas Elsaesser

We report a plasma-based strong THz source generated by using intense femtosecond laser pulses to irradiate solid targets at relativistic intensity >10^18W/cm2. Energies up to 50 microJ/sr per THz pulse is observed in the specular direction…

Using the tilted-pulse-intensity-front scheme, we generate single-cycle terahertz (THz) pulses by optical rectification of femtosecond laser pulses in LiNbO3. In the THz generation setup, the condition that the image of the grating…

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

Recently developed terahertz (THz) two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy (2DCS) is a powerful technique to obtain materials information in a fashion qualitatively different from other spectroscopies. Here, we utilized THz 2DCS to…

A superconducting microstrip half-wavelength resonator is proposed as a suitable band-pass filter for broadband moderate spectral resolution spectroscopy for terahertz (THz) astronomy. The proposed filter geometry has a free spectral range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-23 Alejandro Pascual Laguna , Kenichi Karatsu , David J. Thoen , Vignesh Murugesan , Bruno T. Buijtendorp , Akira Endo , Jochem J. A. Baselmans

Terahertz imaging holds great potential for non-destructive material inspection, but practical implementation has been limited by resolution constraints. In this study, we present a single-pixel THz imaging system based on a confocal…

We experimentally show that indirect light-induced electron transitions could lead to THz detection on standard CCD and CMOS sensors, introducing this well-established technological concept to the THz range. Unlike its optical counterpart,…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-15 Mostafa Shalaby , Carlo Vicario , Christoph P. Hauri

Most transmission and detection channels fail to faithfully support broadband wave packets because of physical limitations, like chromatic dispersion and absorption. We explore the case of lossy detection of ultrashort THz pulses using the…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-04 A. D. Koulouklidis , V. Yu. Fedorov , S. Tzortzakis

We demonstrate an all-photonic terahertz receiver for a data-modulated signal, targeting a 106-GHz, 2.97-Gb/s OOK link. The scheme employs dual-wavelength optical carriers referenced to a soliton microcomb and performs THz-to-optical…

Ultrashort light pulses are ubiquitous in modern research, but the electromagnetic field of the optical cycles is usually not easy to obtain as a function of time. Field-resolved pulse characterization requires either a nonlinear-optical…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-30 Yuya Morimoto , Bo-Han Chen , Peter Baum

Electron ptychography provides highly sensitive, dose efficient phase images which can be corrected for aberrations after the data has been acquired. This is crucial when very precise quantification is required, such as with sensitivity to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-27 Christoph Hofer , Timothy J. Pennycook

Recently, digital holographic imaging techniques (including methods with heterodyne detection) have found increased attention in the terahertz (THz) frequency range. However, holographic techniques rely on the use of a reference beam in…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-14 Mingjun Xiang , Hui Yuan , Lingxiao Wang , Kai Zhou , Hartmut G. Roskos

Non-destructive testing is an important technique for detecting defects in multi-layer materials, enabling the evaluation of structural integrity without causing damage on test materials. Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) offers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Dogus Can Sevdiren , Furkan H. Ilgac , Aydin Sezgin

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…