刻划微棱锥抗反射层的GaP太赫兹波发射器

报道了利用出射面加工有微棱锥结构抗反射层的GaP晶体THz发射器产生超快THz脉冲. 基于微结构界面等效折射率渐变原理, 设计并利用超精密微加工技术在GaP块状THz发射器出射面加工了亚波长微棱锥结构层, 用以提高所产生的THz波的耦合输出. 实验验证了该微结构层能提高所产生的THz波的耦合输出效率, 并能够有效散射剩余抽运光, 提高系统运转的稳定性.     

Spintronic with semiconductors

Soon afterwards the discovery of the giant magnetoresistance in metallic multilayers, researchers have attempted to integrate spintronic properties with semiconductor materials. They came up against several difficulties related to the structural and electronic properties of the ferromagnetic metal-semiconductor interface. We will report on the recent progress made in this field of spintronic with semiconductors. First of all we will explain the interfacial resistance conditions required to inject and detect efficient spin current in a semiconductor and in a second part we will show that efficient spin injection experiments have been now achieved thanks to the addition of a tunnel resistance at the interface. We will then report on the magnetoresistance experiment performed with diluted magnetic semiconductors as ferromagnetic material. This type of material can constitute an alternative road to achieving electrical control spintronic devices. Finally, we will finish by reporting on research for a highly spin-polarized source to inject spin-polarized current in a semiconductor. It will be mainly focused on tunnel magnetoresistance junctions with semiconductor barriers and hot electron transistor. To cite this article: J.-M. George et al., C. R. Physique 6 (2005).     

雪崩倍增GaAs光电导太赫兹辐射源研究进展

在飞秒激光激励下用GaAs光电导开关作为太赫兹(THz)辐射天线, 已经广泛用于太赫兹时域光谱系统, 但目前国际上都是使用GaAs光电导开关的线性工作模式, 而GaAs光电导开关的雪崩倍增工作模式所输出的超快电脉冲功率容量远大于其线性工作模式, 迄今为止, 还没有人提出用雪崩倍增机理的GaAs 光电导开关作为辐射源产生THz电磁辐射. 本文探讨了用 雪崩倍增工作模式的GaAs光电导开关作为光电导天线产生THz电磁波的可能性及研究进展. 通过理论分析及实验研究, 在实验上实现了: 1) 利用nJ量级飞秒激光触发GaAs光电导天线, 可以进入雪崩倍增工作模式; 2) 利用光激发电荷畴的猝灭模式, 可以使GaAs光电导天线载流子雪崩倍增模式的延续时间(lock-on 时间)变短. 这为利用具有雪崩倍增机理的GaAs光电导天线产生强THz辐射奠定了基础.     

GaP波导型发射器产生频率可调谐太赫兹脉冲

报道了利用脉宽可调的光子晶体光纤飞秒激光放大器抽运矩形波导结构的GaP晶体太赫兹(THz) 发射器产生频率可调谐的超快THz脉冲.非线性晶体中光整流过程产生的THz辐射频率随抽运光脉冲宽度而 变化. GaP波导THz发射器可通过波导的几何尺寸来控制色散,以达到增加有效作用长度和提高输出功率的目的. 不同横截面尺寸的波导型发射器的THz辐射峰值频率随相位匹配条件的改变而改变,加以脉宽调节技术, 可以在大频谱范围获得频谱精细可调的THz脉冲.实验中在1 mm×0.7 mm的波导型THz发射器中获得了 频率可调谐的THz脉冲.提出实现THz辐射频率大范围调谐的GaP波导型阵列发射器的实施方案.     

Interaction of terahertz electromagnetic radiation with a probe-object system in a terahertz apertureless near-field microscope

The mechanism of the interaction of coherent terahertz radiation with a probe-nanoobject system has been experimentally investigated in a terahertz apertureless near-field microscope. It has been found that the type of the material of a sample under the probe, as well as the geometry of the probe, determines the form of the dependence of the differential signal of the terahertz field on the distance between the probe and sample. The amplitude of the modulation of the probe height significantly affects the spectral composition of the differential terahertz signal, which is directly related to the amplitude and phase of a terahertz wave scattered by the probe-nanoobject system.     

Microelectromechanical systems bimaterial terahertz sensor with integrated metamaterial absorber

This Letter describes the fabrication of a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) bimaterial terahertz (THz) sensor operating at 3.8 THz. The incident THz radiation is absorbed by a metamaterial structure integrated with the bimaterial. The absorber was designed with a resonant frequency matching the quantum cascade laser illumination source while simultaneously providing structural support, desired thermomechanical properties and optical readout access. Measurement showed that the fabricated absorber has nearly 90% absorption at 3.8 THz. A responsivity of 0.1°/μW and a time constant of 14 ms were observed. The use of metamaterial absorbers allows for tuning the sensor response to the desired frequency to achieve high sensitivity for potential THz imaging applications.     

Metamaterial absorber integrated microfluidic terahertz sensors

Spatial overlap between the electromagnetic fields and the analytes is a key factor for strong light‐matter interaction leading to high sensitivity for label‐free refractive index sensing. Usually, the overlap and therefore the sensitivity are limited by either the localized near field of plasmonic antennas or the decayed resonant mode outside the cavity applied to monitor the refractive index variation. In this paper, by constructing a metal microstructure array‐dielectric‐metal (MDM) structure, a novel metamaterial absorber integrated microfluidic (MAIM) sensor is proposed and demonstrated in terahertz (THz) range, where the dielectric layer of the MDM structure is hollow and acts as the microfluidic channel. Tuning the electromagnetic parameters of metamaterial absorber, greatly confined electromagnetic fields can be obtained in the channel resulting in significantly enhanced interaction between the analytes and the THz wave. A high sensitivity of 3.5 THz/RIU is predicted. The experimental results of devices working around 1 THz agree with the simulation ones well. The proposed idea to integrate metamaterial and microfluid with a large light‐matter interaction can be extended to other frequency regions and has promising applications in matter detection and biosensing.

     

Transient surface photoconductivity of GaAs emitter studied by terahertz pump-emission spectroscopy

This paper investigates the ultrafast carrier dynamics and surface photoconductivity of unbiased semi-insulating GaAs in detail by using a terahertz pump-emission technique. Based on theoretical modelling, it finds that transient photoconductivity plays a very important role in the temporal waveform of terahertz radiation pulse. Anomalous enhancement in both terahertz radiation and transient photoconductivity is observed after the excitation of pump pulse and we attribute these phenomena to carrier capture in the EL2 centers. Moreover, the pump power- and temperature-dependent measurements are also performed to verify this trapping model.     

Intense Cherenkov-type terahertz electromagnetic radiation from ultrafast laser-plasma interaction

A Cherenkov-type terahertz electromagnetic radiation is revealed, which results efficiently from the collective effects in the time-domain of ultrafast pulsed electron current produced by ultrafast intense laser--plasma interaction. The emitted pulse waveform and spectrum, and the dependence of laser pulse parameters on the structure of the radiation field are investigated numerically. The condition of THz radiation generation in this regime and Cherenkov geometry of the radiation field are studied analytically.     

Interaction of terahertz electromagnetic waves with periodic gratings of graphene micro- and nanoribbons

An original mathematical model of the interaction of terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves with periodic gratings of graphene micro- and nanoribbons is based on the solution to the boundary-value problem of diffraction for the Maxwell equations with electrodynamic boundary conditions and material equations. The electrodynamic calculations of the transmission coefficients of the TEM wave versus frequency are performed for the 2D grating of graphene micro- and nanoribbons at several chemical potentials, grating periods, and geometrical sizes of ribbons. The results of the calculations show that the transmission spectrum exhibits a minimum in the THz range if the electric field of the wave is perpendicular to the graphene ribbons. The minimum is due to the plasmon resonance of the fundamental mode in graphene, and the absorption peaks at higher frequencies in the upper part of the THz range are related to the highorder plasmon modes.     

Passive location of transition electromagnetic radiation of a beam electron emitter

In the study by Chudnovskii et al. (Russ. J. Phys. Chem. B., 2012, no. 2), it was shown that transition electromagnetic radiation appears between the linear-accelerator diaphragm and a target. In this case, produced bremsstrahlung leads to the generation of high-energy γ quanta on the accelerator target. The theoretical model of transition radiation that was developed in the aforementioned study and its experimental verification make it possible to closely approach the solution of the problem of detecting a beam-radiator source and determining its coordinates and engineering parameters. It is shown that for linear-accelerator pumping frequencies of 1, 3, and 10 GHz, the reliable location in space is possible for distances from the Earth’s surface of 6000, 2400, and 600 km, respectively. In this case, the minimum signal-to-noise ratio must exceed 2–3.     

A novel integrated MEMS helix antenna for terahertz applications

This paper reports the design and analysis of a novel helix antenna based on Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, which is used in terahertz (THz) applications. The structure of the antenna includes two parts, the metallic helix and the coplanar waveguide (CPW) on the substrate for feed, the fabrication of the structure needs only one wafer, and the antenna can be easily integrated with other parts of on-chip circuits. There are many tunable parameters of the helix, so that high performance THz antenna can be achieved by optimizing these parameters. The proposed antenna can be manufactured by MEMS processing with low fabrication cost, suitable for many terahertz systems.     

Efficient generation of terahertz pulses in lithium niobate crystal with integrated matching prism

We present results of experimental studies of Cherenkov-type generation of a terahertz (THz)-pulse during propagation of a femtosecond laser pulse in LiNbO₃ crystal with a Si-prism output coupler. Application of the Si-prism allows reducing essentially the damping of THz radiation because of shortening of the path of THz pulse in the nonlinear crystal. Results of experimental studies agree sufficiently well with theoretical calculations.     

太赫兹波段电磁超材料吸波器折射率传感特性

太赫兹超材料吸波器作为一类重要的超材料功能器件,除了可以实现对入射太赫兹波的完美吸收外,还可以作为折射率传感器实现对周围环境信息变化的捕捉与监测.通常从优化表面金属谐振单元结构和改变介质层材料和形态两个方面出发,改善太赫兹超材料吸波器的传感特性.为深入研究中间介质层对太赫兹超材料吸波器传感特性的影响,本文基于金属开口谐...     

Single-shot measurement of terahertz electromagnetic pulses by use of electro-optic sampling

We demonstrate a simple scheme for capturing the temporal waveforms of a freely propagating terahertz electromagnetic transient in a single shot. The method relies on electro-optic sampling in a noncollinear geometry for the terahertz radiation and the visible probe beam, coupled with multichannel detection. The approach provides time resolution that is comparable to that of conventional electro-optic sampling measurements.     

Dynamically tunable terahertz passband filter based on metamaterials integrated with a graphene middle layer

The dynamic tunability of a terahertz(THz) passband filter was realized by changing the Fermi energy(E_F) of graphene based on the sandwiched structure of metal-graphene-metal metamaterials(MGMs). By using plane wave simulation, we demonstrated that the central frequency( f_0) of the proposed filter can shift from 5.04 THz to 5.71 THz; this shift is accompanied by a 3 dB bandwidth(? f) decrease from 1.82 THz to 0.01 THz as the EFincreases from 0 to 0.75 eV.Additionally, in order to select a suitable control equation for the proposed filter, the curves of ? f and f_0 under different graphene EFwere fitted using five different mathematical models. The fitting results demonstrate that the Dose Resp model offers accurate predictions of the change in the 3 dB bandwidth, and the Quartic model can successfully describe the variation in the center frequency of the proposed filter. Moreover, the electric field and current density analyses show that the dynamic tuning property of the proposed filter is mainly caused by the competition of two coupling effects at different graphene EF, i.e., graphene-polyimide coupling and graphene-metal coupling. This study shows that the proposed structures are promising for realizing dynamically tunable filters in innovative THz communication systems.     

Terahertz electromagnetic waves emitted from semiconductor investigated using terahertz time domain spectroscopy

Ultrafast electromagnetic waves radiated from semiconductor material under high electric fields and photoexcited by femtosecond laser pulses have been recorded by using terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS).The waveforms of these electromagnetic waves reflect the dynamics of the photoexcited carriers in the semiconductor material,thus,THz-TDS provides a unique opportunity to observe directly the temporal and spatial evolutions of non-equilibrium transport of carriers within sub-picosecond time scale....     

Switchable band-pass filter for terahertz waves using VO2-based metamaterial integrated with silicon substrate

Optical Review - Terahertz (THz) waves are a promising candidate for detection, imaging, and advanced communications with ultrafast transmission speed. To develop THz technologies, miniaturized...     

Nonlinear quantum mode of terahertz electromagnetic wave amplification in resonant tunneling heterostructures

An analysis of high-frequency properties of the resonant tunneling diode (RTD) in a strong microwave electromagnetic field showed that the high-frequency current response increasing with the microwave power significantly more rapidly saturates out in the case of classical amplification mode, than in the case of “quantum” amplification mode. This makes the “quantum” mode even more attractive in comparison with the classical mode from the viewpoint of the possibility of amplification and generation in the range of subterahertz and terahertz frequencies and offers new opportunities to advance towards these frequencies.