Abstract
We have demonstrated a new scheme for generating intense far-infrared or THz-radiation pulses synchronously with near-infrared pulses using a saturable Bragg reflector placed inside a mode-locked laser cavity. With this newly proposed simple scheme, THz-radiation peaked at around 0.66 THz, with 2-3 nW average power is directly generated synchronously with femtosecond near-infrared optical pulses.
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