Conveners
Fundamental Physics at THz and sub-THz
- Stefano Lupi (ROMA1)
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Dr GianPaolo Papari (Physics Department, University of Naples "Federico II" and INFN Naples Unit)05/04/2017, 16:30Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS) is a powerful tool for investigating the electrodynamic response of any kind of material and/or metamaterial. Using THz radiation (0.3-10 THz) one can retrieve in direct way essential information on material properties such as the refractive index and conductivity. These quantities are both described in terms of the complex dielectric function...Go to contribution page
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Dr Tommaso Cea (IIT)05/04/2017, 17:00The recent observation of a transmitted THz pulse oscillating at three times the frequency of the incident light paves the way to a powerful protocol to access resonant excitations in a superconductor. Here we show that this nonlinear optical process is dominated by light-induced excitation of Cooper pairs, while the collective amplitude (Higgs) fluctuations of the superconducting order...Go to contribution page
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Antonio Davide Polosa (ROMA1), Gianluca Cavoto (ROMA1)05/04/2017, 17:30An improved detection scheme for a light-shining-through-wall (LSW) experiment for axion-like particle searches is introduced. Extremely intense photon fluxes (from 100 kW to 1MW) from sources at frequencies in the sub-THz range are sent in an intense magnetic field where a photon to axion-like particle conversion is possible. A single photon detector in this frequency domain based on a...Go to contribution page