THz optiocs

Ultrafast optics

Nonlinear optics

   

10/2025 – present, Principal Investigator (PI) / Researcher, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, CAS, P.R.China

08/2023 – 07/2025, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

08/2022 – 07/2023, Postdoctoral Fellow, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain

01/2019 – 07/2022, Postdoctoral Fellow, INFN and Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

03/2018 – 12/2018, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

07/2014 - 10/2014, Physics Lecturer, Zunyi Medical University, China

11/2014 – 02/2018, Ph.D. in Physics, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

09/2011 – 06/2014, M. Sc. in Physical Electronics, Guangzhou University, China

09/2005 – 06/2009, B. Sc. in Applied Physics, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

   

1. Sen Mou, Rayko I. Stantchev, Sonal Saxena, Huiliang Ou, Shreeya Rane, Sophie L. Pain, John D. Murphy, Euan Hendry, James Lloyd-Hughes, Emma Pickwell-MacPherson*, All-fibre-coupled terahertz single-pixel imaging for biomedical applications, Nature Communications, 17 (2026), 1571
2. X. Romain, P.R. Wilshaw, R.I. Stantchev, T. Miao, S. Mou, T. Niewelt, S. McNab, S.L. Pain, N.E. Grant, R.S. Bonilla, E. Pickwell-MacPherson, J.D. Murphy*, Electrically tunable Si-based THz photomodulator using dielectric/polymer surface gating, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, 15 (2025) 76-83
3. Sen Mou∗, Ziwen Xu, Massimo Petrarca, Stefano Lupi, Hybrid terahertz modes from 110-cut GaP crystal pumped with optical vector beam, Optics and Laser Technology 180 (2025) 111550
4. Sen Mou*, Mauro Leoncini, Salvatore Macis, Gabriele Nisticò, Luca Tomarchio, Annalisa D'Arco, Maria Chiara Paolozzi, Massimo Petrarca, Salvatore Gambino, Aurora Rizzo and Stefano Lupi, Ultrafast hole relaxation between dual valence bands in methylammonium lead iodide, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 12 (2024), 15463–15471
5. Sen Mou∗, Ziwen Xu, Massimo Petrarca, Stefano Lupi, Hybrid hollow-Gaussian and Laguerre–Gaussian terahertz beam generated by optical rectification in β-barium borate, Optics and Laser Technology 175 (2024) 110827
6. Sen Mou∗, Massimo Petrarca, Stefano Lupi, Polarization tunable terahertz generation with optical rectification, Physics Letters A, 525 (2024) 129942
7. Luca Tomarchio, Salvatore Macis, Sen Mou, Lorenzo Mosesso, Anastasios Markou, Edouard Lesne, Claudia Felser, Stefano Lupi*, Optical Conductivity and Photo-induced Polaronic Formation in Co2MnGa Topological Semimetal, Advanced Science, 11 (2024), 2400247
8. Ziwen Xu#, Sen Mou*#, Luca Tomarchio, Annalisa D’Arco, Kangxian Guo*, Massimo Petrarca, Stefano Lupi, Phase-matching effect on the second harmonic and terahertz generations in β-barium borate, Optics and Laser Technology 167 (2023) 109764
9. Sen Mou*, Annalisa D'Arco, Luca Tomarchio, Salvatore Macis, Massimo Petrarca and Stefano Lupi, Achromatic terahertz quarter-wave Fresnel rhomb retarder, Applied Physics Letters 122 (2023), 241102
10. Sen Mou, Andrea Rubano , Qiucheng Yu, Domenico Paparo*, Terahertz unipolar polarimetry by second-harmonic generation in air, Applied Physics Letters 123, 071101 (2023)
11. Luca Tomarchio, Sen Mou, Lorenzo Mosesso, Anastasios Markou, Edouard Lesne, Claudia Felser, and Stefano Lupi*, THz Generation from the Topological Nodal Line Semimetal Co2MnGa, ACS Appl. Electron. Mater., 5 (2023), 1437–1443
12. Sen Mou*, Annalisa D'Arco, Luca Tomarchio, Salvatore Macis, Alessandro Curcio, Stefano Lupi and Massimo Petrarca, Generation of terahertz vector beam bearing tailored topological charge, APL Photonics 8 (2023), 036103
13. Sen Mou*, Luca Tomarchio, Annalisa D'Arco, Marta Di Fabrizio, Salvatore Macis, Alessandro Curcio, Luigi Palumbo, Stefano Lupi, and Massimo Petrarca, Impact of laser chirp on the polarization of terahertz from two-color plasma, Photonics Research 11 (2023), 978-985
14. Luca Tomarchio, Salvatore Macis, Annalisa D'Arco, Sen Mou, Antonio Grilli, Martina Romani, Mariangela Cestelli Guidi, Kailong Hu, Suresh Kukunuri, Samuel Jeong, Augusto Marcelli, Yoshikazu Ito and Stefano Lupi*, Disordered photonics behavior from terahertz to ultraviolet of a three-dimensional graphene network, NPG Asia Materials,13 (2021), 73
15. Sen Mou*, Annalisa D'Arco, Luca Tomarchio, Marta Di Fabrizio, Alessandro Curcio, Stefano Lupi, and Massimo Petrarca, Simultaneous elliptically and radially polarized THz from one-color laser-induced plasma filament, New Journal of Physics, 23 (2021) 063048
16. A. Curcio*, S. Mou, L. Palumbo, S. Lupi, and M. Petrarca, Selection rules for the orbital angular momentum of optically produced THz radiation, Optics Letters, 46 (2021) 1514-1517
17. Di Fabrizio, Marta*, Annalisa D'Arco*, Sen Mou, Luigi Palumbo, Massimo Petrarca, and Stefano Lupi, Performance Evaluation of a THz Pulsed Imaging System: Point Spread Function, Broadband THz Beam Visualization and Image Reconstruction, Applied Sciences, 11 (2021) 562
18. Annalisa D’Arco*, Luca Tomarchio*, Valerio Dolci, Paola Di Pietro, Andrea Perucchi, Sen Mou, Massimo Petrarca, and Stefano Lupi, Broadband Anisotropic Optical Properties of the Terahertz Generator HMQ-TMS Organic Crystal, Condensed Matter., 5 (2020) 47
19. S. Amoruso*, A. Andreone, A. Bellucci, C. Koral, M. Girolami, M. Mastellone, S. Mou, S. Orlando, G. P. Papari, D. Paparo, R. Polini, A. Rubano, A. Santagata, V. Serpente, V. Valentini, and D. M. Trucchi, All-carbon THz components based on laser-treated diamond, Carbon, 163 (2020) 197-201
20. Arianna Ceraso, Sen Mou, Andrea Rubano, and Domenico Paparo*, Coherent THz Hyper-Raman: Spectroscopy and Application in THz Detection, Materials, 12 (2019) 3870
21. Sen Mou, Andrea Rubano, and Domenico Paparo*, Terahertz Hyper-Raman Time-Domain Spectroscopy of Gallium Selenide and its application in terahertz detection, Applied Physics Letters, 115 (2019) 211105
22. Andrea Rubano, Sen Mou, Lorenzo Marrucci, and Domenico Paparo*, Terahertz Hyper-Raman Time-Domain Spectroscopy, ACS Photonics, 66 (2019) 1515-1523
23. Sen Mou, Andrea Rubano, and Domenico Paparo*, Broadband Terahertz Spectroscopy of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 122 (2018) 3133–3140
24. Sen Mou, Andrea Rubano, and Domenico Paparo*, Complex Permittivity of Ionic Liquid Mixtures Investigated by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121 (2017) 7351–7358
25. Andrea Rubano*, Sen Mou and Domenico Paparo, Monitoring the interfacial electric field in pure and doped SrTiO3 surfaces by means of phase-resolved optical second harmonic generation, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 104 (2017) 300-303
26. Zhongmin Zhang, Kangxian Guo*, Sen Mou, Bo Xiao and Yingchu Zhou, Donor impurity states in a GaAs square tangent quantum dot, Superlattices and Microstructures, 83 (2015) 439–446
27. Kangxian Guo*, Zhongmin Zhang, Sen Mou and Bo Xiao, Effect of hydrogenic impurity on linear and nonlinear optical absorption coefficients and refractive index changes in a quantum dot, Journal of Optics, 17 (2015) 055504
28. Zhongmin Zhang, Kangxian Guo*, Sen Mou, Bo Xiao and Yingchu Zhou, Nonlinear optical properties in square tangent quantum wells, Optik, 127 (2015) 928–933
29. Bo Xiao, Kangxian Guo*, Sen Mou, and Zhongmin Zhang, Polaron effects on the second-harmonic generation in asymmetrical semiexponential quantum wells, Turkish Journal of Physics, 39 (2015) 114–121.
30. Zhongmin Zhang, Kangxian Guo*, Sen Mou, Bo Xiao and Lei Liao, Effect of hydrogenic impurity on the third-harmonic generation in a quantum well, Superlattices and Microstructures, 76 (2014) 1–8
31. Sen Mou, Kangxian Guo*, and Bo Xiao, Polaron effects on the linear and nonlinear intersubband optical absorption coefficients in quantum wells with asymmetrical semi-exponential potential, Superlattices and Microstructures, 72 (2014) 72–82
32. Bo Xiao, Kangxian Guo*, Sen Mou, and Zhongmin Zhang, Polaron effects on the optical rectification in asymmetrical semi-exponential quantum wells, Superlattices and Microstructures, 69 (2014) 122–128
33. Sen Mou, Kangxian Guo*, and Bo Xiao, Studies on the third-harmonic generation coefficients in asymmetrical semi-exponential quantum wells, Superlattices and Microstructures, 65 (2014) 309–318
34. Sen Mou, Kangxian Guo*, Guanghui Liu, and Bo Xiao, Second-harmonic generation coefficients in asymmetrical semi-exponential quantum wells, Physica B, 434 (2014) 84–88