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Electro-optic rectification (EOR), also referred to as optical rectification, is a non-linear optical process that consists of the generation of a quasi-DC polarization in a non-linear medium at the passage of an intense optical beam. For typical intensities, optical rectification is a second-order phenomenon which is based on the inverse process of the electro-optic effect. It was reported for the first time in 1962, when radiation from a ruby laser was transmitted through potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) and potassium dideuterium phosphate (KDdP) crystals.
High-energy terahertz radiation source based on semiconductors
This invention relates to a method for generating terahertz radiation and a terahertz radiation source. In the method according to the invention, a pump beam (14) emitted from a pump beam source is incident on a block of a semiconductor nonlinear optical medium (10) having a planar parallel front boundary surface and a rear boundary surface (11, 12), wherein the pump beam (14) is decomposed into a set of sub-pump beams upon refraction on a periodic structure (13) formed by pairs of planar surfaces in the front boundary surface of the block. The sub-pump beams travel in angular directions required to satisfy velocity matching conditions. The envelope of the pump pulse leading edge segment propagating in the sub-pump beam segment propagates in a direction perpendicular to the rear boundary surface (12) (i.e., the exit surface of the optical medium (10)) at the propagation speed of terahertz radiation, and generates terahertz radiation in the semiconductor optical medium (10) by means of optical rectification to satisfy the velocity matching condition; here, is the group velocity of the pump beam (14), is the phase velocity of the generated terahertz radiation, and y is the angle between the envelope of the pulse leading edge of the pump beam (14) and the phase leading edge.
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