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Terahertz generation via all-optical quantum control in 2D and 3D materials

Kamalesh Jana·Amanda B. B. de Souza·Yonghao Mi·Shima Gholam-Mirzaei·Dong Hyuk Ko·Saroj R. Tripathi·Shawn Sederberg·James A. Gupta·Paul B. Corkum
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Using optical technology for current injection and electromagnetic emission simplifies the comparison between materials. Here, we inject current into monolayer graphene and bulk gallium arsenide (GaAs) using two-color quantum interference and detect the emitted electric field by electro-optic sampling. We find the amplitude of emitted terahertz (THz) radiation scales in the same way for both materials even though they differ in dimension, band gap, atomic composition, symmetry and lattice structure. In addition, we observe the same mapping of the current direction to the light characteristics. With no electrodes for injection or detection, our approach will allow electron scattering timescales to be directly measured. We envisage that it will enable exploration of new materials suitable for generating terahertz magnetic fields.

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Kamalesh Jana, Amanda B. B. de Souza, Yonghao Mi, Shima Gholam-Mirzaei, Dong Hyuk Ko, Saroj R. Tripathi, Shawn Sederberg, James A. Gupta, Paul B. Corkum. 2024-11-07. Terahertz generation via all-optical quantum control in 2D and 3D materials. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.111.l161405

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