Abstract
We investigated efficient terahertz wave generation by optical rectification in as-grown nonlinear organic single crystal HMQ-T (2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxystyryl)-1-methylquinolinium 4-methylbenzenesulfonate). Optimal thickness of crystals directly available by a slow cooling method in methanol solution enabled us to achieve high-field few-cycle THz waves at 800-nm pumping. With 95-mW pumping at 1-kHz repetition rate, an optical-to-THz conversion efficiency of 2.7 × 10−4 was achieved and the THz electric field strength, measured by electro-optic sampling, was as high as 110.1 kV/cm. Such an efficient THz source based on as-grown HMQ-T crystals can be used for investigation of various nonlinear phenomena in the THz spectral region.
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