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Generation of Extremely Short Pulses of Terahertz Radiation Based on Superradiation of a Three-Level Resonant Medium

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The possibility of generating extremely short pulses of terahertz (THz) radiation due to superradiance—collective spontaneous emission of a thin layer of a three-level resonant medium excited by a pair of attosecond (or femtosecond) pulses—is studied theoretically. The source of a terahertz pulse is a pulse of stopped nonlinear polarization of the medium, which arises in the interval between its excitation and deexcitation. The case of a three-level medium with equidistant energy levels (as in a quantum harmonic oscillator) the transition frequency of which lies in the THz range is considered. The influence of the populations of the excited levels of the medium on the shape of a terahertz superradiance pulse is discussed.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to Vl.V. Kocharovskii, E.R. Kocharovskaya, M.V. Arkhipov, I.V. Babushkin, A.V. Pakhomov, and S.A. Pulkin for fruitful discussions of the phenomenon of superradiance, which stimulated us to write this communication.

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This work was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 17-19-01097-P).

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Arkhipov, R.M., Rosanov, N.N. Generation of Extremely Short Pulses of Terahertz Radiation Based on Superradiation of a Three-Level Resonant Medium. Opt. Spectrosc. 129, 289–296 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X21030036

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