Half-percent terahertz generation efficiency from cryogenically cooled lithium niobate pumped by Ti:sapphire laser pulses

Xiaojun Wu, Koustuban Ravi, Wenqian Ronny Huang +6

We obtained an optical-to-terahertz (THz) energy conversion efficiency of 0.5% using the tilted-pulse-front technique in lithium niobate at a cryogenically cooled temperature of 10…