Highly efficient generation of THz pulses using laser pulses at telecommunication wavelengths

Author

Schneider, Arno ; Stillhart, Marcel ; Günter, Peter

Author_Institution

Nonlinear Opt. Lab., Inst. of Quantum Electron., Zurich

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate generation of few-cycle THz pulses through optical rectification in organic DAST crystals at telecommunication wavelength (1550 nm). An extremely high conversion efficiency is achieved through velocity-matching and the materialpsilas large nonlinear optical susceptibility.

Keywords

electro-optical effects; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical materials; organic compounds; terahertz wave detectors; terahertz wave generation; 4-N,N-dimethylamino-4´-N´-methyl stilbazolium tosylate; THz pulse generation; extremely high conversion efficiency; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical rectification; organic DAST crystals; ultrashort laser pulse; velocity-matching; wavelength 1550 nm; Laser modes; Lasers and electrooptics; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Pulse measurements; Ultrafast optics; (190.4710) Optical nonlinearities in organic materials; (190.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628234

Filename

4628234