Terahertz emission from gold nanorods irradiated by ultrashort laser pulses of different wavelengths.

Electron photoemission and ponderomotive acceleration by surface enhanced optical fields is considered as a plausible mechanism of terahertz radiation from metallic nanostructures under ultrafast laser excitation. To verify this mechanism, we studied experimentally terahertz emission from an array of gold nanorods illuminated by intense (~10-100 GW/cm) femtosecond pulses of different central wavelengths (600, 720, 800, and 1500 nm). We found for the first time that the order of the dependence of the terahertz fluence on the laser intensity is, unexpectedly, almost the same (~4.

Terahertz wave generation from spontaneously formed nanostructures in silver nanoparticle ink.

We demonstrate terahertz pulse generation from silver nanoparticle ink, originally developed for printed electronics, under irradiation by femtosecond laser pulses. Using metal nanoparticle ink, metallic nanostructures can be easily made in a large area without lithographic techniques. Terahertz pulses were emitted from the baked ink, having spontaneously formed nanostructures of ∼100  nm.

Measurement of beam profiles by terahertz sensor card with cholesteric liquid crystals.

We demonstrate a sensor card with cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) for terahertz (THz) waves generated from a nonlinear crystal pumped by a table-top laser. A beam profile of the THz waves is successfully visualized as color change by the sensor card without additional electronic devices, power supplies, and connecting cables. Above the power density of 4.