A novel THz source, based on optical rectification in LiNbO using the tilted-pulse-front technique, is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The pulse-front tilt is introduced by a volume phase holographic grating, efficiently used at perpendicular incidence in transmission, and the THz pulses are produced in a LiNbO plane-parallel nonlinear echelon slab, arranged parallel to the grating. As a unique feature, the entire setup has a plane-parallel, transmission-type configuration, which straightforwardly enables distortion-free scaling to large sizes, high pulse energies and high THz field strengths. The possibility of operating the setup at cryogenic temperature for increased THz generation efficiency is also investigated. Calculations predict efficiencies of 95% for diffraction and 2% for THz generation at room temperature with a refractive-index-matching liquid between the grating and the echelon slab.
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