[HTML][HTML] Matter manipulation with extreme terahertz light: Progress in the enabling THz technology

P Salén, M Basini, S Bonetti, J Hebling, M Krasilnikov… - Physics reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Terahertz (THz) light has proven to be a fine tool to probe and control quasi-particles and
collective excitations in solids, to drive phase transitions and associated changes in material …

Single-cycle terahertz pulses with amplitudes exceeding 1 MV/cm generated by optical rectification in LiNbO3

H Hirori, F Blanchard, K Tanaka - Applied Physics Letters, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Using the tilted-pump-pulse-front scheme, we generate single-cycle terahertz (THz) pulses
by optical rectification of femtosecond laser pulses in LiNbO 3⁠. In our THz generation …

Terahertz spectroscopy

JB Baxter, GW Guglietta - Analytical chemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Overview and Scope. THz radiation, with frequencies in the range of 0.1 À20 THz, can probe
physical phenomena such as low-energy excitations and carrier dynamics in electronic …

Generation of sub-mJ terahertz pulses by optical rectification

JA Fülöp, L Pálfalvi, S Klingebiel, G Almási, F Krausz… - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Recent theoretical calculations predicted an order-of-magnitude increase in the efficiency of
terahertz pulse generation by optical rectification in lithium niobate when 500 fs long pump …

Ultrabright continuously tunable terahertz-wave generation at room temperature

S Hayashi, K Nawata, T Taira, J Shikata, K Kawase… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
The hottest frequency region in terms of research currently lies in the 'frequency gap'region
between microwaves and infrared: terahertz waves. Although new methods for generating …

High conversion efficiency, high energy terahertz pulses by optical rectification in cryogenically cooled lithium niobate

SW Huang, E Granados, WR Huang, KH Hong… - Optics letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate highly efficient terahertz (THz) generation by optical rectification (OR) of
near-optimum pump pulses centered at 1.03 μm in cryogenically cooled lithium niobate …

Nonlinear optical response of graphene in time domain

KL Ishikawa - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010 - APS
We study nonlinear optical response of electron dynamics in graphene to an intense light
pulse within the model of massless Dirac fermions. The time-dependent Dirac equation can …

Extraordinary carrier multiplication gated by a picosecond electric field pulse

H Hirori, K Shinokita, M Shirai, S Tani, Y Kadoya… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
The study of carrier multiplication has become an essential part of many-body physics and
materials science as this multiplication directly affects nonlinear transport phenomena, and …

Towards generation of mJ-level ultrashort THz pulses by optical rectification

JA Fülöp, L Pálfalvi, MC Hoffmann, J Hebling - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Optical rectification of ultrashort laser pulses in LiNbO_3 by tilted-pulse-front excitation is a
powerful way to generate near single-cycle terahertz (THz) pulses. Calculations were …

Dynamical nonlinear interactions of solids with strong terahertz pulses

H Hirori, K Tanaka - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2016 - journals.jps.jp
Table-top high-power terahertz (THz) pulse sources based on the femtosecond lasers are
able to reveal fascinating nonlinear transport phenomena in materials and coherently drive …