◆Preprints & submitted articles
M. A. Weiss, J. Schlegel, D. Anić, E. Steiner, F. S. Herbst, M. Nakajima, T. Kurihara, A. Leitenstorfer, U. Nowak, Sebastian Goennenwein, "Field-tuning of ultrafast magnetization fluctuations in Sm0.7Er0.3FeO3", arXiv:2509.26084, submitted.
*†David Rohrbach, *†Zhuquan Zhang, Takayuki Kurihara, and Keith A. Nelson, "Discovery of magnon self-interaction in a strongly driven antiferromagnet", arXiv:2506.19040, submitted.
◆Peer reviewed articles
*Tomoya Mizuno, Tianqi Yang, Takayuki Kurihara, Yimin Gu, Tomoyuki Shoji, Teruto Kanai, and *Jiro Itatani, "Harmonic generation in preionized liquids driven by intense mid-infrared pulses", Phys. Rev. A 112, 043123 (2025) .
*M. A. Weiss, F. S. Herbst, G. Skobjin, S. Eggert, M. Nakajima, D. Reustlen, A. Leitenstorfer, S. T. B. Goennenwein, and *T. Kurihara, "Quantifying the Amplitudes of Ultrafast Magnetization Fluctuations in Sm0.7Er0.3FeO3 Using Femtosecond Noise Correlation Spectroscopy", Phys. Rev. Applied 24, 044021 (2025). (*corresponding author)
T. Fujimoto, Y. Murotani, T. Tamaya, T. Kurihara, N. Kanda, C. Kim, J. Yoshinobu, H. Akiyama, T. Kato, and R. Matsunaga, Light-induced inverse spin Hall effect and field-induced circular photogalvanic effect in GaAs revealed by two-dimensional terahertz Fourier analysis, Phys. Rev. B 111, L201201 (2025).
*†Ahmed Ramadan Ibrahim, *†Takayuki Kurihara,Yimin Gu, and *Jiro Itatani, "CEP-stable few-cycle pulse generation based on noncolinear optical parametric amplification in LiB3O5 pumped by third harmonic of a Yb:KGW laser", Appl. Phys. Express 18 052002 (2025). (†co-first, *corresponding author)
Tianqi Yang, *Takayuki Kurihara, Yangyang Hua, Tomoya Mizuno, Teruto Kanai, Satoshi Ashihara, Yoshihisa Harada, *Jiro Itatani, "Enhancement of high harmonic generation in liquid water by resonant excitation in the mid-infrared", Applied Physics Express 17, 122006 (2024). (*corresponding author)
Zhenya Zhang , Minoru Kanega, Kei Maruyama, Takayuki Kurihara, Makoto Nakajima, Takehiro Tachizaki, Masahiro Sato, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu, Hideki Hirori, "Spin switching in Sm0.7Er0.3FeO3 triggered by terahertz magnetic-field pulses", Nature Materials 1 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-02034-4 .
*M. A. Weiss, F. S. Herbst, S. Eggert, M. Nakajima, A. Leitenstorfer, S. T. B. Goennenwein, and *T. Kurihara, "Subharmonic Lock-in Detection and Its Optimization for Femtosecond Noise Correlation Spectroscopy", Review of Scientific Instruments 95, 083005 (2024). (Featured Article). (arXiv:2403.09829) (*corresponding author)
S. Y. Liu, Y. Iwamoto, H. Mashiko, S. Ichimaru, M. Hatayama, E. M. Gullikson, T. Mizuno, T. Kurihara, J. Itatani, and H. Takenaka, "Development of a narrowband multilayer mirror for extracting a single order component from high harmonics in the 63–70 eV region", Appllied Optics, 63, 4522–4528 (2024). (Editor's Pick)
Zhuquan Zhang, Frank Y. Gao, Jonathan B. Curtis, Zi-Jie Liu, Yu-Che Chien, Alexander von Hoegen, Man Tou Wong, Takayuki Kurihara, Tohru Suemoto, Prineha Narang, Edoardo Baldini, and Keith A. Nelson, "Terahertz field-induced nonlinear coupling of two magnon modes in an antiferromagnet", Nature Physics (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02386-3. (arXiv:2301.12555)
Tomohiro Fujimoto, Takayuki Kurihara, Yuta Murotani, Tomohiro Tamaya, Natsuki Kanda, Kim Changsu, Jun Yoshinobu, Hidefumi Akiyama, Takeo Kato, Ryusuke Matsunaga, "Observation of Terahertz Spin Hall Conductivity Spectrum in GaAs with Optical Spin Injection", Physical Review Letters 132, 016301 (2024). (Editor's Suggestion). (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09155)
Marvin A. Weiss, Andreas Herbst, Julius Schlegel, Tobias Dannegger, Martin Evers, Andreas Donges, Makoto Nakajima, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, Ulrich Nowak, and *Takayuki Kurihara, "Discovery of ultrafast spontaneous spin switching in an antiferromagnet by femtosecond noise correlation spectroscopy", Nature Communications 14, 7651 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43318-8 (arXiv:2301.02006) (*corresponding author)
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T. Kurihara, T. Yang, T. Mizuno, T. Kanai, and J. Itatani, "Highly CEP-stable optical parametric amplifier at 2 µm with a few-cycle duration and 100 kHz repetition rate," Opt. Express, 31(7), 11649–11658 (2023).
T. Kurihara, M. Bamba, H. Watanabe, M. Nakajima, and T. Suemoto, "Observation of terahertz-induced dynamical spin canting in orthoferrite magnon by magnetorefractive probing", Commun Phys 6, 51, 1–6 (2023). (ArXiv:2202.11365)
Tomoya Mizuno, Tianqi Yang, Takayuki Kurihara, Nobuhisa Ishii, Teruto Kanai, Oleg I. Tolstikhin, Toru Morishita, and Jiro Itatani, "Comparative study of photoelectron momentum distributions from Kr and CO2 near a backward rescattering caustic by carrier-envelope phase mapping", Phys. Rev. A 107, 033101 (2023).
Christoph Schoenfeld, Philipp Sulzer, Daniele Brida, Alfred Leitenstorfer, and *Takayuki Kurihara, "Passively phase-locked Er:fiber source of single-cycle pulses in the near infrared with electro-optic timing modulation for field-resolved electron control", Optics Letters 47, 3552-3555 (2022). (*corresponding author)
T. Deckert, J. Allerbeck, T. Kurihara, and D. Brida, "Ultrafast Multidimensional Spectroscopy with Field Resolution and Noncollinear Geometry at Mid-Infrared Frequencies", New J. Phys. 24, 023005 (2022).
M. Nakajima, G. Isoyama and T. Kurihara, "Magnetic Domain Control of ErFeO3 by Intense Terahertz Free Electron Laser Pulses," in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 49, no. 11, pp. 3344-3350, Nov. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TPS.2021.3112456.
Gabriel Fitzky, Makoto Nakajima, Yohei Koike, Alfred Leitenstorfer, and *Takayuki Kurihara, "Ultrafast control of magnetic anisotropy by resonant excitation of 4f electrons and phonons in Sm0.7Er0.3FeO3", Physical Review Letters 127, 107401 (2021). (*corresponding author)
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Kurihara, T., Hirota, K., Qiu, H., Phan, K.T.N., Kato, K., Isoyama, G., Nakajima, M., "Reconfiguration of magnetic domain structures of ErFeO3 by intense terahertz free electron laser pulses", Sci Rep 10, 7321 (2020).
Takayuki Kurihara, Hongsong Qiu, Kosaku Kato, Hiroshi Watanabe and Makoto Nakajima, "Enhanced detection sensitivity of terahertz magnetic nearfield with cryogenically-cooled magnetooptical sampling in terbium-gallium-garnet", Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 11, 111103 (2018) (Editor's Pick).
Abel Woldegeorgis, Takayuki Kurihara, Mohammed Almassarani, Burgard Beleites, Ronny Grosse, Falk Ronneberger, and Amrutha Gopal, "Multi-MV/cm longitudinally polarized terahertz pulses from laser–thin foil interaction", Optica 5, Issue 11, pp. 1474-1477 (2018).
A. Woldegeorgis, T. Kurihara, B. Beleites, J. Bossert, R.Grosse, G. G. Paulus, F. Ronneberger, A. Gopal, "THz induced nonlinear effects in materials at intensities above 26 GW/cm2", J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves (2018) 39:667–680, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-018-0493-3.
H. Qiu, T. Kurihara, H. Harada, K. Kato, K. Takano, T. Suemoto, M. Tani, N. Sarukura, M. Yoshimura, and M. Nakajima, "Enhancing terahertz magnetic near field induced by a micro-split-ring resonator with a tapered waveguide," Opt. Lett. 43, 1658-1661 (2018).
T. Kurihara, H. Watanabe, M. Nakajima, S. Karube, K. Oto, Y. Otani and T. Suemoto, "Macroscopic Magnetization Control by Symmetry Breaking of Photoinduced Spin Reorientation with Intense Terahertz Magnetic Near Field", Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107202 (2018)
Kosaku Kato, Hongsong Qiu, Eduard M. Khutoryan, Yoshinori Tatematsu, Masahiko Tani, Toshitaka Idehara, Yuusuke Yamaguchi, Masafumi Fukunari, Yuto Maeda, Kyoya Takayama, Yuki Minami, Melvin John F. Empizo, Takayuki Kurihara, Kohei Yamanoi, Toshihiko Shimizu, Keisuke Takano, Nobuhiko Sarukura, Tsuguo Fukuda, Masashi Yoshimura, and Makoto Nakajima, "Strong yellow emission of high-conductivity bulk ZnO single crystals irradiated with high-power gyrotron beam", Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 031108 (2017)
H. Watanabe, T. Kurihara, T. Kato, K. Yamaguchi and T. Suemoto, "Observation of long-lived coherent spin precession in orthoferrite ErFeO3 induced by terahertz magnetic fields", Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 092401 (2017)
M. P. Fischer, J. Bühler, G. Fitzky, T. Kurihara, S. Eggert, A. Leitenstorfer, and D. Brida, "Coherent Field Transients below 15 THz from Phase-Matched Difference Frequency Generation in 4H-SiC", Opt. Lett. 42, 2687 (2017)
J. Lu, X. Li, H. Y. Hwang, B. K. Ofori-Okai, T. Kurihara, T. Suemoto, and K. A. Nelson, "Coherent Two-Dimensional Terahertz Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Collective Spin Waves", Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 207204 (2017)
M. Nakajima, T. Kurihara, Y. Tadokoro, B. Kang, K. Takano, K. Yamaguchi, H. Watanabe, K. Oto, T. Suemoto and M. Hangyo, “Application of Terahertz field Enhancement effect in metal microstructures”, Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves 37, 1199-1212 (Dec. 2016).
Junichi Nishitani, Takayuki Kurihara, Akifumi Asahara, Takeshi Nagashima, Mikk Lippmaa,and Tohru Suemoto, "Photoexcited d-electron dynamics in transition metal oxide MnO studied by optical pump-THz probe measurements", Phys. Status Solidi C 13, No. 2–3, 113–116 (2016).
T. Suemoto, K. Nakamura, T. Kurihara, and H. Watanabe, "Magnetization-free measurements of spin orientations in orthoferrites using terahertz time domain spectroscopy", Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 042404 (2015).
K. Yamaguchi, T. Kurihara, H. Watanabe, M. Nakajima, and T. Suemoto, "Dynamics of photoinduced change of magnetoanisotropy parameter in orthoferrites probed with terahertz excited coherent spin precessions”, Phys. Rev. B 92, 064404 (2015).
T. Kurihara, K. Nakamura, K. Yamaguchi, Y. Sekine, Y. Saito, M. Nakajima, K. Oto, H. Watanabe and T. Suemoto, "Enhanced spin-precession dynamics in a spin-metamaterial coupled resonator observed in terahertz time-domain measurements”, Physical Review B 90, 144408 (2014).
T. Kurihara, K. Yamaguchi, H. Watanabe, M. Nakajima and T. Suemoto, "Dielectric probe for scattering-type terahertz scanning near-field optical microscopy", Applied Physics Letters 103, 151105 (2013).
Y. Minami, T. Kurihara, K. Yamaguchi, M. Nakajima, T. Suemoto, "Longitudinal terahertz wave generation from an air plasma filament induced by a femtosecond laser", Applied Physics Letters 102, 151106 (2013).
K. Yamaguchi, T. Kurihara, Y. Minami, M. Nakajima, T. Suemoto, "Terahertz Time-Domain Observation of Spin Reorientation in Orthoferrite ErFeO3 through Magnetic Free Induction Decay", Physical Review Letters 110, 137204 (2013).
Y. Minami, T. Kurihara, K. Yamaguchi, M. Nakajima, T. Suemoto, "High-power THz wave generation in plasma induced by polarization adjusted two-color laser pulses", Applied Physics Letters 102, 041105 (2013).
T. Kurihara, R. Sugimoto, R. Kudo, S. Takahashi and K. Takamasu, "Height measurement of single nanoparticles based on evanescent field modulation", International Journal of Nanomanufacturing, 8, Nos. 5/6, 419 (2012).
◆Other articles
馬場基彰,栗原貴之,"光と物質の超強結合:分光でみやすいものとまだ見えていないもの",分光研究 第74巻 第1号 (2025)
栗原貴之,華洋陽,楊添淇,水野智也,原田慈久,板谷治郎, 「中赤外における水薄膜中異常伝搬の第二高調波による観測」,応用物理学会フォトニクスニュース vol 10, No. 2 (2024).
栗原貴之,"THz・中赤外光を用いた電子励起による磁気異方性の超高速制御",まぐね 第19巻 3号「外場による磁気異方性制御」,Vol.19, No.3 (2024年6月号)
Takayuki Kurihara, "Ultrafast Control of Magnetic Anisotropy by Electronic Excitation with Terahertz and Mid-infrared Radiation", Magnetics Jpn. Vol. 19, No. 3, 2024 (in Japanese)
Takayuki Kurihara, "Observation and Control of Magnetic Order Dynamics by Terahertz Magnetic Nearfield", Springer Thesis, 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8793-8
栗原貴之,末元徹,"テラヘルツ磁場による巨視的磁化の制御",固体物理 第54巻 第11号 特集号「高強度テラヘルツ・赤外パルスが拓く非平衡物性」,2019. (in Japanese)
中嶋誠,栗原貴之,邱紅松,加藤康作,"金属微細共振器によるテラヘルツスピン分光への応用",化学工業 2018年12月号 (in Japanese)
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