Compact and high-power broadband terahertz source based on femtosecond photonic crystal fiber amplifier

We present a review of the development of a compact and high-power broadband terahertz (THz) source optically excited by a femtosecond photonic crystal fiber (PCF) amplifier.The large mode area of the PCF and the stretcher-free configuration make the pump source compact and very efficient.Broadband THz pulses of 150 μW extending from 0.1 to 3.5 THz are generated from a 3-mm-thick GaP crystal through optical rectification of 12-W pump pulses with duration of 66 fs and a repetition rate of 52 MHz.A strong saturation effect is observed,which is attributed to pump pulse absorption;a Z-scan measurement shows that three-photon absorption dominates the nonlinear absorption when the crystal is pumped by femtosecond pulses at 1 040 nm.A further scale-up of the THz source power is expected to find important applications in THz nonlinear optics and nonlinear THz spectroscopy.     

飞秒激光激发下本征GaP非线性吸收及Kerr效应的实验研究

采用掺镱光子晶体光纤飞秒激光放大器为抽运源,搭建了偏振分辨的Z-scan实验系统.实验研究了块状本征磷化镓(GaP)晶体的非线性吸收和非线性折射率系数.研究证明,在中心波长1 μm飞秒激光的作用下,本征GaP晶体的非线性吸收主要为三光子吸收.而且还表明本征GaP的非线性吸收和非线性折射率系数具有很强的各项异性、偏振相关性及饱和特性. 关键词： 磷化镓 Z-scan Kerr效应 三光子吸收     

硅基VO2纳米薄膜光致绝缘体—金属相变的THz时域频谱研究

利用THz时域频谱技术(THz-TDS)研究了硅基二氧化钒(VO₂)纳米薄膜的光致绝缘体—金属相变特性.在连续光激发下前后,观察到了非常明显的THz透过率变化,并通过薄膜近似计算出了THz波段金属态VO₂薄膜的电导率.根据实验结果建立了金属态VO₂薄膜的等效Drude模型,得到了复电导率,复电容率以及复折射率等相关的基本参数,并通过基于时域有限积分法模拟了THz波穿透硅基金属态VO₂薄膜的过程,验证了所建立的模型的正确 关键词： 二氧化钒 光致相变 Drude模型 THz时域频谱技术     

Analysis of terahertz waveguide modes in continuous wavelet domain

Conventional analytical methods in the wavelet domain are used to present an analysis of terahertz (THz) waveguide modes.To obtain THz radiation pulses passing through a waveguide,we build a simple experimental system with a 5-mm-long,230-μm-inner-diameter stainless steel waveguide.The single-mode guided signal from the experiments and the multi-mode signal of a similar THz waveguide reported in the literature are analyzed using the continuous wavelet transform (CWT).The results demonstrate that analyzing THz waveguide modes in the wavelet domain not only possesses all the functionality of the traditional THz time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) data processing but also has the ability to unscramble quantitatively and intuitively detailed information about the target samples,such as mode type,cut-off frequency,amplitude distinction,and group velocity.