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Extreme terahertz science

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In the future, sources of intense terahertz radiation will open up an era of extreme terahertz science featuring nonlinear light–matter interactions and applications in spectroscopy and imaging.

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Figure 1: Conceptual illustration of a pump–probe experiment employing a THz pump and an X-ray probe for time-resolved nanoscale imaging.

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  1. Xi Cheng Zhang is at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627-0186, USA,

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  2. Alexander Shkurinov is at the Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Leninskie gori 1, Moscow, Russia,

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  3. Yan Zhang is at the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Imaging Technology, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037, China,

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Zhang, X., Shkurinov, A. & Zhang, Y. Extreme terahertz science. Nature Photon 11, 16–18 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.249

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