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Article Dans Une Revue Optics Express Année : 2022

Ultra-broadband THz pulses with electric field amplitude exceeding 100 kV/cm at a 200 kHz repetition rate

Niloufar Nilforoushan
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Thibault Apretna
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Chao Song
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Thomas Boulier
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Jérôme Tignon
Sukhdeep Dhillon
Marc Hanna
Juliette Mangeney

Résumé

We demonstrate a table-top source delivering ultra-broadband THz pulses with electric field strength exceeding 100 kV/cm at a repetition rate of 200 kHz. The source is based on optical rectification of 23 fs pulses at 1030 nm delivered by a ytterbium-doped fiber laser followed by a nonlinear temporal compression stage. We generate THz pulses with a conversion efficiency of up to 0.11 % with a spectrum extending to 11 THz using a 1 mm thick GaP crystal and a conversion efficiency of 0.016 % with a spectrum extending to 30 THz using a 30 µ m thick GaSe crystal. The essential features of the emitted THz pulse spectra are well captured by simulations of the optical rectification process relying on coupled nonlinear equations. Our ultrafast laser-based source uniquely satisfies an important requirement of nonlinear THz experiments, namely the emission of ultra-broadband THz pulses with high electric field amplitudes at high repetition rates, opening a route towards nonlinear time-resolved THz experiments with high signal-to-noise ratios.

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hal-03798023 , version 1 (05-10-2022)

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Niloufar Nilforoushan, Thibault Apretna, Chao Song, Thomas Boulier, Jérôme Tignon, et al.. Ultra-broadband THz pulses with electric field amplitude exceeding 100 kV/cm at a 200 kHz repetition rate. Optics Express, 2022, 30 (9), pp.15556. ⟨10.1364/OE.453105⟩. ⟨hal-03798023⟩
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