Publications 2008

12. "Second-order elastic constants of pentaerythritol tetranitrate and cyclotrimethylene trinitramine using impulsive stimulated thermal scattering," B. Sun, J.M. Winey, N. Hemmi, Z.A. Dregger, K.A. Zimmerman, Y.M. Gupta, D.H. Torchinsky, and K.A. Nelson, J. Appl. Phys. 104, 073517 (2008).

11. "Thermal conductivity of nanoparticle suspensions in insulating media measured with a transient optical grating and a hotwire", A.J. Schmidt, M. Chiesa, D.H. Torchinsky, A.J. Johnson, K.A. Nelson, and G. Chen, J. Appl. Phys. 103, 083529 (2008).

10.  "Fiber laser pumped high average power single-cycle terahertz pulse source," M. C. Hoffmann, K.-L. Yeh, H.Y. Hwang, T.S. Sosnowski, B.S. Prall, J. Hebling, and K.A. Nelson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93,141107 (2008). [url]

9. "Generation and detection of tunable phonon polaritons using a single transmission grating," K. Katayama, H. Inoue, H. Sugiya, Q. Shen, T. Toyoda and K.A. Nelson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 031906 (2008). [url] 

8. "Experimental investigation of nanofluid shear and longitudinal viscosities," A. Schmidt, M. Chiesa, D.H. Torchinsky, J. Johnson, A. Boustani, G. McKinley, K.A. Nelson, and G. Chen, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 244107 (2008). [url]

7.  "Terahertz death ray," J. Hebling, K.-L. Yeh, M.C. Hoffmann, and K.A. Nelson, Joint 31st Int'l Conf. on Infrared Millimeter Waves and 14th Int'l Conf. on Terahertz Electronics, 2006 (IEEE Conf. Proc., IRMMW-THz 2006), pp. 137-139.

6. “Analysis of phase contrast imaging of terahertz phonon-polaritons,” P. Peier, S. Pilz, F. Muller, T. Feurer, and K.A. Nelson, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25, B70-B75 (2008). [url]

5.  "Photoacoustic measurements to determine acoustic velocities in shocked materials: Application to liquid benzene," N. Hemmi, D.H. Torchinsky, K.A. Zimmerman, J.M. Winey, K.A. Nelson, and Y.M. Gupta,  Appl Phys. Lett. 92, 101926 (2008). [url]

4. "Generation of high average power 1 kHz shaped THz pulses via optical rectification," K.-L. Yeh, J. Hebling, M.C. Hoffmann, and K.A. Nelson, Opt. Comm. 133567-3570 (2008).

3. "Generation of high power THz pulses by tilted pulse front excitation and their application possibilities," J. Hebling, K.-L. Yeh, M.C. Hoffmann, B. Bartal, and K.A. Nelson, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25, B6-B19 (2008). [url]

2. "Picosecond photoexcitation of acoustic waves in locally canted gold films," T. Pezeril, F. Leon, D. Chateigner, S. Kooi and K.A. Nelson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 061908 (2008).[url]

1. "High power THz generation, THz nonlinear optics, and THz nonlinear spectroscopy," J. Hebling, K.-L. Yeh, M. C. Hoffmann and Keith A. Nelson, IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 14, 345-353 (2008). [url]