The 4H-SiC crystal is found to have great potential in terahertz generation via nonlinear optical frequency conversion due to its extremely high optical damage threshold,wide transparent range,etc.In this paper,optica...The 4H-SiC crystal is found to have great potential in terahertz generation via nonlinear optical frequency conversion due to its extremely high optical damage threshold,wide transparent range,etc.In this paper,optical rectification(OR)with tilted-pulse-front(TPF)setting based on the 4H-SiC crystal is proposed.The theory accounts for the optimization of incident pulse pre-chirping in the TPF OR process under high-intensity femtosecond laser pumping.Compared with the currently recognized LiNbO3-based TPF OR,which generates a single-cycle terahertz pulse within 3 THz,4HSiC demonstrates a significant advantage in producing ultra-widely tunable(up to over 14 THz,TPF angle 31◦–38◦)terahertz waves with high efficiency(~10–2)and strong field(~MV/cm).Besides,the spectrum characteristics,as well as the evolution from single-to multi-cycle terahertz pulses can be modulated flexibly by pre-chirping.The simulation results show that 4H-SiC enables terahertz frequency extending to an unprecedent range by OR,which has extremely important potential in strong-field terahertz applications.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62175184)the Key Laboratory of Micro Opto-electro Mechanical System Technology,Ministry of Education.
文摘The 4H-SiC crystal is found to have great potential in terahertz generation via nonlinear optical frequency conversion due to its extremely high optical damage threshold,wide transparent range,etc.In this paper,optical rectification(OR)with tilted-pulse-front(TPF)setting based on the 4H-SiC crystal is proposed.The theory accounts for the optimization of incident pulse pre-chirping in the TPF OR process under high-intensity femtosecond laser pumping.Compared with the currently recognized LiNbO3-based TPF OR,which generates a single-cycle terahertz pulse within 3 THz,4HSiC demonstrates a significant advantage in producing ultra-widely tunable(up to over 14 THz,TPF angle 31◦–38◦)terahertz waves with high efficiency(~10–2)and strong field(~MV/cm).Besides,the spectrum characteristics,as well as the evolution from single-to multi-cycle terahertz pulses can be modulated flexibly by pre-chirping.The simulation results show that 4H-SiC enables terahertz frequency extending to an unprecedent range by OR,which has extremely important potential in strong-field terahertz applications.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61271157,11403084and 61401456)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2014M551678)Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds(No.1301054B)
