Photoactivatable protecting groups (PPGs) have become the powerful materials for controlling the activity of biologically important molecules in biomedical field. However, designing PPG that can be efficiently activated by biologically...
Development of novel schemes for efficient terahertz (THz) generation from transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are useful for realizing integrated THz devices based on them and also, understanding of the related fundamental processes from such studies will guide to suitable designs. Here, we report the THz emission efficiency of bulk MoS2 layered crystal at varying femtosecond excitation wavelengths, from 550 nm to the telecommunication wavelength of 1550 nm. By using both the below bandgap excitation at longer wavelengths and the above bandgap excitation at shorter wavelengths, we resolve THz emission contributions from resonant and non-resonant optical rectification processes, and the surface field induced transient photocurrent effect (TPE). A relatively much larger contribution to THz emission from the TPE than the resonant optical rectification is measured for the above bandgap excitation. We have measured a clear difference between the resonant and nonresonant optical rectification processes. The pure optical rectification part is exclusively determined from detailed experiments using excitation intensity, polarization angle, and azimuthal angle dependent measurements. For the above bandgap excitation, the THz emission gets highly saturated with the increasing excitation intensity. Also, the value of the saturation intensity increases (decreases) with the excitation photon energy (wavelength). Interestingly, we find that the linear polarization angle and the azimuthal angle dependent THz signal due to resonant optical rectification is π/2 phase offset relative to that due to the nonresonant optical rectification.
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