High-speed all-optical terahertz polarization switching by a transient plasma phase modulator

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Wen, Haidan ^a   Daranciang, Dan ^b   Lindenberg, Aaron M ^a,c  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; BROADBAND TERAHERTZ; CONTROL PULSE; HIGH-SPEED; OPTICAL PUMPS; ORTHOGONAL GEOMETRY; PHASE MODULATOR; PLASMA CONFIGURATION; POLARIZATION MODULATION; POLARIZATION SWITCHING; RELATIVE PHASE; SUBPICOSECOND; SWITCH-ON; TERA HERTZ; TRANSIENT PLASMAS; TWO-COLOR;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; POLARIZATION; PULSE REPETITION RATE;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 77951857781     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3407514     Document Type: Article

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