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Free-space super-strong terahertz (THz) electromagnetic fields offer multifaceted capabilities for reaching extreme nonlinear THz optics, accelerating and manipulating charged particles, and realizing other fascinating applications.…

Terahertz emission spectroscopy of ultrathin multilayers of magnetic and heavy metals has recently attracted much interest. This method not only provides fundamental insights into photoinduced spin transport and spin-orbit interaction at…

Selenium is a crucial earth-abundant and non-toxic semiconductor with a wide range of applications across the semiconductor industries. Selenium has drawn attention from scientific communities for its wide range of applicability: from…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-30 S. K. Barman , M. N. Huda , J. Asaadi , E. Gramellini , D. Nygren

Using an affordable ytterbium laser with sub-mJ of energy combined with a novel pulse compression technique, we demonstrate an extremely competitive state-of-the-art terahertz (THz) source with 53 mW of average power and 310 kV/cm at focus…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-25 L. Guiramand , J. E. Nkeck , X. Ropagnol , T. Ozaki , F. Blanchard

High-throughput calculations are a very promising tool for screening a large number of compounds in order to discover new useful materials. Ternary intermetallic are thus investigated in the present work to find new compounds potentially…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-22 Celine Barreteau , Jean-Claude Crivello , Jean-Marc Joubert , Eric Alleno

Terahertz (THz) radiation is a powerful probe of low-energy excitations in all phases of matter. However, it remains a challenge to find materials that efficiently generate THz radiation in a broad range of frequencies following optical…

High energy single- to few-cycle terahertz pulses enable the exploration of the frontier of science, such as electron acceleration, strong-field physics, and spectroscopy. One important method of generating such terahertz pulses is to use…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-28 Lu Wang , György Tóth , János Hebling , Franz Kärtner

Terahertz near fields of gold metamaterials resonant at a frequency of $0.88\,\rm THz$ allow us to enter an extreme limit of non-perturbative ultrafast THz electronics: Fields reaching a ponderomotive energy in the keV range are exploited…

Modern communication and sensing technologies rely on connecting the optical domain with the microwave domain. Terahertz technologies, spanning increased frequencies from 100 GHz to 10 THz, are critical for providing larger bandwidths and…

Terahertz (THz) frequency range, lying between the optical and microwave range covers a significant portion of the electro-magnetic spectrum. Though its initial usage started in the 1960s, active research in the THz field started only in…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ajanta Barh , B. P. Pal , G. P. Agrawal , R. K. Varshney , B. M. A. Rahman

ZnTe is arguably the most widely used nonlinear crystal for the generation and detection of THz radiation, used in conjunction with sub-bandgap optical excitation by femtosecond lasers operating near 800 nm. The THz dielectric function of…

We present in this letter terahertz (THz) metamaterials with low ohmic losses made from low-temperature superconductor niobium nitride (NbN) films. The resonance properties are characterized by THz time-domain spectroscopy. The unloaded…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 C. H. Zhang , J. B. Wu , B. B. Jin , Z. M. Ji , L. Kang , W. W. Xu , J. Chen , P. H. Wu

Superconducting quantum circuits are one of the leading quantum computing platforms. To advance superconducting quantum computing to a point of practical importance, it is critical to identify and address material imperfections that lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Xiao Guo , Xin He , Zach Degnan , Bogdan C. Donose , Karl Bertling , Arkady Fedorov , Aleksandar D. Rakić , Peter Jacobson

Free-space strong-field terahertz (THz) pulses, generated via optical rectification of femtosecond lasers in nonlinear crystals, are pivotal in various applications. However, conventional Ti:sapphire lasers struggle to produce…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Deyin Kong , Yichen Su , Cheng Song , Xiaojun Wu

Terahertz spectroscopy allows for identifying different isomers of materials, for drug discrimination as well as for detecting hazardous substances. As many dielectric materials used for packaging are transparent in the terahertz spectral…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-06 Mirco Kutas , Björn Haase , Jens Klier , Daniel Molter , Georg von Freymann

We theoretically investigated the scheme allowing to avoid destructive space-charge instabilities and to obtain a strong gain at microwave and THz frequencies in semiconductor superlattice devices. Superlattice is subjected to a microwave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirill N. Alekseev , Natalia V. Demarina , Maxim V. Gorkunov

We report the results of theoretical and numerical analysis of the crystalline undulators planned to be used in the experiments which are the part of the ongoing PECU project [1]. The goal of such an analysis was to define the parameters…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. V. Korol , A. V. Solov'yov , Walter Greiner , . , .

We report the coherent generation and detection of terahertz (THz) pulses covering the bandwidth of 0.1-9 THz in a high repetition rate, low pulse energy laser system. In this work we demonstrate the application and evaluation of…

Low power efficiency is one of the main problems of THz sources, colloquially known as the THz gap. In this work we present prototypes of THz devices based on whisker-crystals of a hightemperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-20 R. Cattaneo , E. A. Borodianskyi , A. A. Kalenyuk , V. M. Krasnov

Within 4 different crystal structures, 2280 ternary intermetallic configurations have been investigated via high-throughput density functional theory calculations in order to discover new semiconducting materials. The screening is…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Celine Barreteau , Jean-Claude Crivello , Jean-Marc Joubert , Eric Alleno