Easily variable and scalable terahertz pulse source based on tilted-pulse-front pumped semiconductors

Krizsán, Gergő and Tibai, Zoltán and Tóth, György and Hebling, János and Pálfalvi, László (2024) Easily variable and scalable terahertz pulse source based on tilted-pulse-front pumped semiconductors. OPTICS EXPRESS, 32 (11). pp. 18909-18915. ISSN 1094-4087

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Abstract

A new type of terahertz source containing only two optical elements - a volume phase holographic grating, and a semiconductor nonlinear slab - is proposed. The setup does not require any microstructuring, has only one diffraction order, and can be scaled to large pump sizes without any principal limitations. Furthermore, it can be easily adapted to different pump wavelengths and THz phase-matching frequencies. The Fresnel loss at the boundary of the materials can be significant at conventional pump polarizations (s-pol), but a single-layer anti-reflection (AR) coating can reduce it. Pumping such a setup with polarization in the dispersion plane (p-pol, TM mode) can reduce the effective nonlinear polarization and consequently the terahertz generation efficiency. However, in the absence of AR coating, this reduction is overcompensated by the reduced Fresnel loss.

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