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The Teramobile laser facility was used to realize the first mobile source of high-power THz pulses. The source is based on a tilted-pulse-front pumping THz generation scheme optimized for application of terawatt laser pulses. Generation of 50-μJ single-cycle electromagnetic pulses centered at 0.19 THz with a repetition rate of 10 Hz was obtained for incoming 700-fs 120-mJ near-infrared laser pulses. The corresponding laser-to-THz photon conversion efficiency is approximately 100%.
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Stepanov, A.G., Henin, S., Petit, Y. et al. Mobile source of high-energy single-cycle terahertz pulses. Appl. Phys. B 101, 11–14 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-010-4186-4
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