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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…
In this article, two wide band high-efficiency metasurface structures as a linear-cross polarizer in transmission mode based on asymmetric split-ring resonators (ASRR) are proposed and tested to indicate that this is not a purely…
A new class of wideband bandpass filters based on using thick metallic bars as microwave resonators, instead of common microstrip lines, is presented. These bars provide a series of advantages over fully planar printed technologies,…
The dream of physico-chemists to control molecular reactions with light beyond electronic excitations pushes the development of laser pulse shaping capabilities in the mid-infrared (MIR) spectral range. Here, we present a compact optical…
We demonstrate photoacoustic wave propagation with a plane wavefront in liquid water using a terahertz (THz) laser pulse. The THz light can effectively generate the photoacoustic wave in water because of strong absorption via a stretching…
We report on a waveguide engineering technique that enables the generation of a bandwidth up to 1 THz and record ultra-short pulse length of 2.5 ps in injection seeded terahertz quantum cascade lasers. The reported technique is able to…
Ultrasonic superresolution images can be generated by means of (super) focusing acoustic beams to subwavelength dimensions or using algorithm-based methods. Here, we demonstrate that ultrasonic pulses which are superfocused by a ball-shaped…
Generating energetic femtosecond mid-IR pulses is crucial for ultrafast spectroscopy, and currently relies on parametric processes that, while efficient, are also complex. Here we experimentally show a simple alternative that uses a single…
We present a numerical study on plasma generation of THz radiation utilizing multiple light pulses of various wavelengths in an optical scheme that is readily achievable in a tabletop environment. To achieve coherent THz emission it is…
We show that using strongly coupled dual-core waveguides for supercontinuum generation shifts the wavelength of the high-frequency dispersive waves towards shorter wavelengths, as compared to generation in a single-core waveguide having the…
Development of ultrashort pulse sources has had an immense impact on condensed-matter physics, biomedical imaging, high-field physics, frequency metrology, telecommunications, nonlinear optics, and molecular spectroscopy. Although numerous…
We report the generation of intense deep ultraviolet pulses at 200 nm with a duration of 48 fs and pulse energy of 130 uJ, achieved via cascaded sum frequency generation using 800 nm femtosecond pulses in barium borate crystals. Efficient…
We report on the first experimental demonstration of widely-tunable parametric sideband generation in a Kerr microresonator. Specifically, by pumping a silica microsphere in the normal dispersion regime, we achieve the generation of…
In traditional spread-spectrum techniques, a wideband transmit signal is obtained by modulating a wideband carrier by a narrowband signal containing a relatively low-rate message. In the receiver, the respective demodulation/despreading…
Traditionally one defines the speed of a wave as a property of the medium. Recent studies in photonics have challenged this idea, indicating that spatial shaping of the optical wavefront has can alter the arrival time of single photons when…
The parametric amplification of ultrashort (femtosecond) laser pulses in crystals with a regular domain structure (RDS) of the 5%Mg : PPLN type has been investigated theoretically. The focus was on the formation of a signal pulse in…
Ultrashort, low-emittance electron pulses can be created at a high repetition rate by using a TM$_{110}$ deflection cavity to sweep a continuous beam across an aperture. These pulses can be used for time-resolved electron microscopy with…
Lasers capable of generating attosecond X-ray pulses in the water window (282 to 533 eV) through high-order harmonic generation are normally based on inefficient, multi-stage optical parametric amplifiers or optical parametric chirped pulse…
The redistribution of matter in the deep-sea depends on water-flow currents and turbulent exchange, for which breaking internal waves are an important source. As internal waves and turbulence are essentially three-dimensional 3D, their…
We present the design and measurements of a 90GHz prototype of a millimeter-wave channelizing spectrometer realized in rectangular waveguide for astronomical instrumentation. The device was fabricated using conventional high-precision metal…