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 …

Intense THz Pulses with large ponderomotive potential generated from large aperture photoconductive antennas

X Ropagnol, M Khorasaninejad, M Raeiszadeh… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report the generation of free space terahertz (THz) pulses with energy up to 8.3±0.2 µJ
from an encapsulated interdigitated ZnSe Large Aperture Photo-Conductive Antenna …

Observation of crossover from intraband to interband nonlinear terahertz optics

X Chai, X Ropagnol, A Ovchinnikov, O Chefonov… - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, we investigate the nonlinear effects of extremely intense few-cycle terahertz
(THz) pulses (generated from the organic crystal 4-NN, NN-dimethylamino-4^′ 4^′-N …

Photoconductive terahertz generation from textured semiconductor materials

CM Collier, TJ Stirling, IR Hristovski, JDA Krupa… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Photoconductive (PC) terahertz (THz) emitters are often limited by ohmic loss and
Joule heating—as these effects can lead to thermal runaway and premature device …

Terahertz wave generation from thin metal films excited by asymmetrical optical fields

J Dai, XC Zhang - Optics Letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrated terahertz (THz) wave emission from thin metal (gold) films
excited by asymmetrical optical fields synthesized using an in-line phase compensator. By …

Ultrafast Control of the Polarity of by Orbital Excitation as Investigated by Femtosecond Spectroscopy

Y Okimoto, S Naruse, R Fukaya, T Ishikawa… - Physical Review …, 2017 - APS
BiCoO 3 is a perovskite-type cobalt oxide with a polar structure. We investigate the dynamics
of its polar state by using photoexcitation with femtosecond visible and terahertz pulses. The …

Spatial polarization variation in terahertz electromagnetic wave focused by off-axis parabolic mirror

M Takai, K Shibata, M Uemoto… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We have investigated the spatial distribution of the polarization state of a terahertz
electromagnetic wave focused by an off-axis parabolic mirror (OPM) in the focal plane. We …

Relaxation of localized excitons by phonon emission at oxygen vacancies in Cu2O

S Koirala, M Takahata, Y Hazama, N Naka… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
We have studied the relaxation mechanism of localized excitons at optically active defect
centers in cuprous oxide by the photoluminescence (PL) and photoluminescence excitation …

Rattling of oxygen ions in a sub-nanometer-sized cage converts terahertz radiation to visible light

Y Toda, S Ishiyama, E Khutoryan, T Idehara… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A simple and robust approach to visualization of continuous wave terahertz (CW-THz) light
would open up opportunities to couple physical phenomena that occur at fundamentally …

Evidence for terahertz acoustic phonon parametric oscillator based on acousto-optic degenerate four-wave mixing in a silicon do** superlattice

TE Wilson - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We report evidence for a 1.0-THz self-starting mirrorless acoustic phonon parametric
oscillator (MAPPO) produced from acousto-optic phase-conjugate degenerate four-wave …