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Transient Grating with Asymmetric Arms for Electro-Optic Generation of THz Radiation

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A grating technique is investigated as a scheme to encode an amplitude profile of an optical pulse on THz radiation via an inverse electro-optic effect. Results of an experiment that employed a chirped optical pulse are explained in terms of U-turn motion of an optical fringe pattern.

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  1. Electrotechnical Laboratory, Umezono 1-1-4, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305, Japan

    H. Kawashima, F. Sasaki, S. Kobayashi & T. Tani

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0431, USA

    Paul F. Barbara

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    James G. Fujimoto

  3. Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technology, Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, NJ, 07733-3030, USA

    Wayne H. Knox Ph. D.

  4. Institut für Medizinische Optik, Universität München, Barbarastrasse 16, D-80797, München, Germany

    Wolfgang Zinth

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Kawashima, H., Sasaki, F., Kobayashi, S., Tani, T. (1996). Transient Grating with Asymmetric Arms for Electro-Optic Generation of THz Radiation. In: Barbara, P.F., Fujimoto, J.G., Knox, W.H., Zinth, W. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena X. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80314-7_28

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