Laser‐driven strong‐field terahertz sources

JA Fülöp, S Tzortzakis… - Advanced Optical Materials, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
A review on the recent development of intense laser‐driven terahertz (THz) sources is
provided here. The technologies discussed include various types of sources based on …

[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 …

Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide

CN Danson, C Haefner, J Bromage… - High Power Laser …, 2019‏ - cambridge.org
In the 2015 review paper 'Petawatt Class Lasers Worldwide'a comprehensive overview of
the current status of high-power facilities of was presented. This was largely based on facility …

1.4‐mJ high energy terahertz radiation from lithium niobates

B Zhang, Z Ma, J Ma, X Wu, C Ouyang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Free‐space super‐strong terahertz (THz) electromagnetic fields offer multifaceted
capabilities for reaching extreme nonlinear THz optics. However, the lack of powerful solid …

Ultrabroadband single-cycle terahertz pulses with peak fields of 300 kV cm− 1 from a metallic spintronic emitter

T Seifert, S Jaiswal, M Sajadi, G Jakob… - Applied Physics …, 2017‏ - pubs.aip.org
We explore the capabilities of metallic spintronic thin-film stacks as a source of intense and
broadband terahertz electromagnetic fields. For this purpose, we excite a W/CoFeB/Pt …

Tilted pulse front pum** techniques for efficient terahertz pulse generation

G Tóth, G Polónyi, J Hebling - Light: Science & Applications, 2023‏ - nature.com
Optical rectification of femtosecond laser pulses has emerged as the dominant technique for
generating single-and few-cycle terahertz (THz) pulses. The advent of the tilted pulse front …

Cascaded amplification and manipulation of terahertz emission by flexible spintronic heterostructures

Z **, Y Peng, Y Ni, G Wu, B Ji, X Wu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Spintronic heterostructures consisting of ferromagnetic (FM) and nonmagnetic (NM) have
become increasingly important devices for terahertz (THz) pulse generation, named as …

Experimental observation of optically generated unipolar electromagnetic precursors

IE Ilyakov, BV Shishkin, ES Efimenko, SB Bodrov… - Optics …, 2022‏ - opg.optica.org
It was recently predicted [Phys. Rev. A 95 (6), 063817 (2017) 10.1103/PhysRevA.
95.063817] that an intense femtosecond laser pulse propagating in an electro-optic crystal …

Ionizing terahertz waves with 260 MV/cm from scalable optical rectification

H Kim, C Kang, D Jang, Y Roh, SH Lee… - Light: Science & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Terahertz (THz) waves, known as non-ionizing radiation owing to their low photon energies,
can actually ionize atoms and molecules when a sufficiently large number of THz photons …

Unusual terahertz waveforms from a resonant medium controlled by diffractive optical elements

AV Pakhomov, RM Arkhipov, MV Arkhipov… - Scientific reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Up to now, full tunability of waveforms was possible only in electronics, up to radio-
frequencies. Here we propose a new concept of producing few-cycle terahertz (THz) pulses …