Organizers
Hassan A. Hafez, Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Klaas-Jan Tielrooij, Department of Applied Physics, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
Jan-Christoph Deinert, Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
The terahertz (THz) regime hosts many current and future technological applications. It also corresponds to fundamentally important energy and time scales governing many transport phenomena comprising, for example, electron, lattice and spin dynamics in solids. Advances in THz science have enabled the emergence and growth of nonlinear THz photonics — thanks to the development of intense THz sources operating at high repetition rates and establishing highly-sensitive detection techniques. Whereas nonlinear frequency conversion using IR and visible light is a common practice with efficiencies exceeding 10%, such efficiencies have not been attainable in the THz range until recently.
The accomplished achievements in this field to date are expected to pave the way, for example, for new technologies operating at higher speeds and for the development of efficient and tunable mode-locked far-IR and THz lasers. Yet, extensive efforts are being made in order to:
- enhance and widely control the nonlinear THz-matter interactions and also reach higher-order nonlinearities
- tailor novel functionalities in solids, especially in the newly emerging quantum materials
- translate the field from being dependent on large-scale and sophisticated facilities to user-friendly integrated systems and
- develop relevant technological applications
Invited Speakers
Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Terahertz Photonics On-chip
Thomas E. Murphy, University of Maryland, USA
Observing and Enhancing Terahertz Nonlinear Effects Using Guided Modes and Plasmonic Structures
Koichiro Tanaka, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan
Terahertz Doppler-Free Spectroscopy with UTC-PD Emitter
Nathalie Vermeulen, Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Nonlinear Optics of Graphene and Other Post-2000 Materials