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The controlled interaction between a single, trapped, laser-driven atom and the mode of a high-finesse optical cavity allows for the generation of temporally separated, entangled light pulses. Entanglement between the photon-number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Vitali , Priscilla Canizares , Juergen Eschner , Giovanna Morigi

Self-phase modulation (SPM) of light pulses is found to occur strongly, at low incident intensities, in the coupling of light with superconductors. We develop a theory from a synthesis of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) equation…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-25 Charles Robson , Fabio Biancalana

It is found that nonlinear interaction of plasma wakefields driven by counterpropagating laser or particle beams can efficiently generate high-power electromagnetic radiation at the second harmonic of the plasma frequency. Using a simple…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 I. V. Timofeev , V. V. Annenkov , E. P. Volchok

In this article we propose a system capable of THz radiation with quantum yield above unity. The system consists of nanoparticles where the material composition varies along the radial direction of each nanoparticle in such a way that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 K. B. Arnardottir , T. C. H. Liew

We introduce a general technique to generate compressed broadband terahertz pulses based on difference frequency generation of optical pump radiation using aperiodically poled structures. The pump pulse format and poling of the crystals…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-22 Koustuban Ravi , Franz X Kärtner

We show that a single, trapped, laser-driven atom in a high-finesse optical cavity allows for the quantum-coherent generation of entangled light pulses on demand. Schemes for generating simultaneous and temporally separated pulse pairs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giovanna Morigi , Jürgen Eschner , Stefano Mancini , David Vitali

A coherent terahertz needle radiation emission mechanism is proposed. This mechanism can be realized in the experiments on femtosecond laser pulses interacting with surface of nanostructured ferromagnetic metal film. The proposed mechanism…

Optics · Physics 2008-09-30 Anatoly D. Gladun , Vladimir G. Leiman , Aleksey V. Arsenin

We present a detailed analysis of coherence creation in a four level double lambda-like atomic system using a train of ultra-short few-cycle Gaussian pulses. The effect of the Doppler broadening has been analyzed. It is possible to create…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Amarendra K. Sarma , Pawan Kumar

Adoption of terahertz technologies is hindered by the lack of cost-effective THz sources. Here we demonstrate a fundamentally new way to generate and control THz radiation, via spatio-temporal emissivity modulation. By patterning the…

The nature of electronic motion and structural information of atoms and molecules is encoded into strong-field induced radiations ranging from terahertz (THz) to extreme ultraviolet wavelength. The dependence of THz yields in bi-chromatic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ziyang Gan , Kaixuan Zhang , Yuan Gao , Ahai Chen , Yizhu Zhang , Tian-Min Yan , Thomas Pfeifer , Yuhai Jiang

Laser-produced plasma (LPP) induced during irradiation of a liquid tin droplet with diameter of 150 um and 180 um by CO2 laser pulse with various pulse durations and energies is considered. The two-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Vasily S Zakharov , Xinbing Wang , Sergey V. Zakharov , Duluo Zuo , Junwu Wang

High energy terahertz pulses are produced by optical rectification (OR) in organic crystals DAST and DSTMS by a Ti:sapphire amplifier system centered at 0.8 microns. The simple scheme provides broadband spectra between 1 and 5 THz, when…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 B. Monoszlai , C. Vicario , M. Jazbinsek , C. P. Hauri

We investigate the out-of-equilibrium lattice dynamics in the spin-ladder system $\alpha'$-NaV$_2$O$_5$ using intense terahertz (THz) pump and near-infrared (NIR) probe spectroscopy. When quasi-single-cycle THz pulses interact with…

Active energy compression scheme is presently being investigated for future laser-plasma accelerators. This method enables generating laser-plasma accelerator electron beams with a small, $\sim 10^{-5}$, relative slice energy spread. When…

The coherent interaction between a laser-driven single trapped atom and an optical high-finesse resonator allows to produce entangled multi-photon light pulses on demand. The mechanism is based on the mechanical effect of light. The degree…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giovanna Morigi , Juergen Eschner , Stefano Mancini , David Vitali

Electrically injected terahertz (THz) radiation sources are extremely appealing given their versatility and miniaturization potential, opening the venue for integrated-circuit THz technology. In this work, we show that coherent THz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Pedro Cosme , Hugo Terças

We present a detailed theoretical description of the generation of stationary light pulses by standing wave electromagnetically induced transparency in media comprised of stationary atoms. We show that, contrary to thermal gas media, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kristian Rymann Hansen , Klaus Molmer

We generate high-order harmonics in gaseous medium with tunable photon energy using time domain interferometry of double pulses in a non-collinear generation geometry. The method is based on the fact that the generated harmonics inherit…

We propose a method based on the slice energy spread modulation to generate strong subpicoseond density bunching in high-intensity relativistic electron beams. A laser pulse with periodic intensity envelope is used to modulate the slice…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Zhen Zhang , Lixin Yan , Yingchao Du , Wenhui Huang , Chuanxiang Tang , Zhirong Huang

A model for THz generation by optical rectification using tilted-pulse-fronts is developed. It simultaneously accounts for (i) the spatio-temporal distortions of the optical pump pulse, (ii) the nonlinear coupled interaction of THz and…