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Imaging applications in the terahertz (THz) frequency range are severely restricted by diffraction. Near-field scanning probe microscopy is commonly employed to enable mapping of the THz electromagnetic fields with sub-wavelength spatial…
Active control of optical nonlinearity is essential for advancing next-generation electronics and photonics, including high-speed wireless communications, optical information processing, and nonlinear signal manipulation. However, achieving…
We consider tunneling between two edges of Quantum Hall liquids (QHL) of filling factors $\nu_{0,1}=1/(2 m_{0,1}+1)$, with $m_0 \geq m_1\geq 0$, through two point contacts forming Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Quasi-particle description of…
Terahertz (THz) nonreciprocal devices are essential for advancing future fundamental science, wireless communications, imaging, and sensing. Current THz nonreciprocal devices mostly rely on magnetic materials, which, however, suffer from…
Weak measurement amplification, which is considered as a very promising scheme in precision measurement, has been applied to various small physical quantities estimation. Since many quantities can be converted to phase signal, it is thus…
We introduce THz Stark spectroscopy by using intense single-cycle terahertz pulses as the electric field source and monitoring the induced spectral response of an isotropic molecular ensemble with a coincident femtosecond supercontinuum…
We show that the polarization state of coherent light propagating through an optically thick multiple-scattering medium, can be controlled by wavefront shaping, i.e. by controlling only the spatial phase of the incoming field with a spatial…
A simple traveling wave antenna model is used to theoretically study emission from an array of filaments. Both transverse and longitudinal arrays of filaments are considered. The angular distribution and power in the THz signal are…
To reach sub-picometer sensitivity in the millihertz range, displacement sensors based on laser interferometry require suppression of laser-frequency noise by several orders of magnitude. Many optical frequency stabilization methods exist…
We investigate a Mach-Zehnder interferometer driven by a time-dependent voltage. Motivated by recent experiments, we focus on a train of Lorentzian voltage pulses which we compare to a sinusoidal and a constant voltage. We discuss the…
Quantum technologies in the terahertz (THz) require a coherent interface between addressable qubits and THz quantum channels -- a capacity that so far, remains largely underdeveloped. Here, we propose and demonstrate the generation of…
We present a simple polarizing Mach-Zehnder interferometer that can be used for optimal minimal ellipsometry: Only four intensities are measured to determine the three Stokes parameters, and an optimal choice for the four polarization…
To achieve sub-picometer sensitivities in the millihertz band, laser interferometric inertial sensors rely on some form of reduction of the laser frequency noise, typically by locking the laser to a stable frequency reference, such as the…
The manipulation of TO-phonon polaritons and the terahertz (THz) light field associated with them by means of an ultra-sound acoustic wave is proposed and illustrated by calculating the TO-phonon-mediated THz response of acoustically-pumped…
The advancement of 3D-printing opens up a new way of constructing affordable custom terahertz (THz) components due to suitable printing resolution and THz transparency of polymer materials. We present a way of calculating, designing and…
Strong-field mid-infrared pump--terahertz (THz) probe spectroscopy has been proven as a powerful tool for light control of different orders in strongly correlated materials. We report the construction of an ultrafast broadband infrared…
Optical metasurfaces are rapidly establishing as key-enabling platforms for nanophotonics applications. Along with the ability of taming light in subwavelength thicknesses, they can feature multiple functionalities in one device. The…
In this paper, a wideband and low-scattering metasurface in terahertz (THz) is introduced. The proposed coding metasurface is composed of four different graphene square patches in one layer, which has a distinct bias voltage. By optimizing…
In this paper, a broadband tunable polarization converter based on graphene metasurfaces is proposed. This polarization converter works in the terahertz (THz) frequency region, using the advantage of graphene characteristics to have a…
We investigate a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by two time-dependently driven single-particle sources, one of them placed in front of the interferometer, the other in the center of one of the arms. As long as the two sources are operated…