Quantum-inspired terahertz spectroscopy with visible photons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02759v1
• Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 11:11:47 GMT
• Title: Quantum-inspired terahertz spectroscopy with visible photons
• Authors: Mirco Kutas, Bj\"orn Haase, Jens Klier, Daniel Molter and Georg von Freymann
• Abstract summary: Terahertz spectroscopy allows for identifying different isomers of materials, for drug discrimination and for detecting hazardous substances. Despite these useful applications, terahertz spectroscopy suffers from the still technically demanding detection of terahertz radiation. Here, we report on the first demonstration of terahertz spectroscopy, in which the sample interacts with terahertz idler photons.
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• Abstract: Terahertz spectroscopy allows for identifying different isomers of materials, for drug discrimination as well as for detecting hazardous substances. As many dielectric materials used for packaging are transparent in the terahertz spectral range, substances might even be identified if packaged. Despite these useful applications, terahertz spectroscopy suffers from the still technically demanding detection of terahertz radiation. Thus, either coherent time-domain-spectroscopy schemes employing ultrafast pulsed lasers or continuous-wave detection with photomixers requiring two laser systems are used to circumvent the challenge to detect such low-energetic radiation without using cooled detectors. Here, we report on the first demonstration of terahertz spectroscopy, in which the sample interacts with terahertz idler photons, while only correlated visible signal photons are detected - a concept inspired by quantum optics. To generate these correlated signal-idler photon pairs, a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal and a 660 nm continuous-wave pump source are used. After propagating through a single-crystal nonlinear interferometer, the pump photons are separated from the signal radiation by highly efficient and narrowband volume Bragg gratings. An uncooled scientific CMOS camera detects the frequency-angular spectra of the remaining visible signal and reveals terahertz-spectral information in the Stokes as well as the anti-Stokes part of collinear forward generation. Neither cooled detectors nor expensive pulsed lasers for coherent detection are required. We demonstrate spectroscopy on the well-known absorption features in the terahertz spectral range of $\alpha$-lactose monohydrate and para-aminobenzoic acid by detecting only visible photons.

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