TY - JOUR
AU - Jolly, Spencer Windhorst
AU - Matlis, Nicholas H.
AU - Ahr, Frederike
AU - Leroux, Vincent
AU - Eichner, Timo
AU - Calendron, Anne-Laure
AU - Ishizuki, Hideki
AU - Taira, Takunori
AU - Kärtner, Franz X.
AU - Maier, Andreas R.
TI - Spectral phase control of interfering chirped pulses for high-energy narrowband terahertz generation
JO - Nature Communications
VL - 10
IS - 1
SN - 2041-1723
CY - [London]
PB - Nature Publishing Group UK
M1 - PUBDB-2019-04464
SP - 2591
PY - 2019
N1 - PIF-2017-67
AB - Highly-efficient optical generation of narrowband terahertz radiation enables unexplored technologies and sciences from compact electron acceleration to charge manipulation in solids. State-of-the-art conversion efficiencies are currently achieved using difference-frequency generation driven by temporal beating of chirped pulses but remain, however, far lower than desired or predicted. Here we show that high-order spectral phase fundamentally limits the efficiency of narrowband difference-frequency generation using chirped-pulse beating and resolve this limitation by introducing a novel technique based on tuning the relative spectral phase of the pulses. For optical terahertz generation, we demonstrate a 13-fold enhancement in conversion efficiency for 1
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6 - pmid:31197164
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000471226600011
DO - DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-10657-4
UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/428283
ER -