✦ LIBER ✦
An integrated description of terahertz generation through optical rectification, charge transfer, and current surge
✍ Scribed by Klaas Wynne; John J. Carey
- Book ID
- 103871400
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 393 KB
- Volume
- 256
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0030-4018
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✦ Synopsis
Ultrafast terahertz pulses can be generated through a number of processes such as optical rectification in an electrooptic crystal, a current surge in a biased photoconductive antenna, or charge transfer in aligned molecules. It will be shown that all these rectification processes can be described by a single analytical formula in the frequency domain. A recipe is given for the quick calculation of terahertz waveforms generated through any rectification process and detected through electro-optic sampling. This theory is compared with experimentally measured terahertz waveforms.