Photoconductive emitters for pulsed terahertz generation

DR Bacon, J Madéo, KM Dani - Journal of Optics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Conceived over 30 years ago, photoconductive (PC) emitters have proved essential in the
development and spread of terahertz technology. Since then, not only have they been used …

Review of terahertz photoconductive antenna technology

NM Burford, MO El-Shenawee - Optical Engineering, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoconductive antennas (PCAs) have been extensively utilized for the generation and
detection of both pulsed broadband and single frequency continuous wave terahertz (THz) …

Plasmon-enhanced below bandgap photoconductive terahertz generation and detection

A Jooshesh, V Bahrami-Yekta, J Zhang, T Tiedje… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We use plasmon enhancement to achieve terahertz (THz) photoconductive switches that
combine the benefits of low-temperature grown GaAs with mature 1.5 μm femtosecond …

Nanoplasmonics enhanced terahertz sources

A Jooshesh, L Smith, M Masnadi-Shirazi… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Arrayed hexagonal metal nanostructures are used to maximize the local current density
while providing effective thermal management at the nanoscale, thereby allowing for …

Boosting photoconductive large-area THz emitter via optical light confinement behind a highly refractive sapphire-fiber lens

DS Ponomarev, DV Lavrukhin, NV Zenchenko… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report on a sapphire-fiber-based lens that can be used to enhance the emitted THz
power of a large-area photoconductive antenna (PCA). Using numerical simulations, we …

A broadband THz-TDS system based on DSTMS emitter and LTG InGaAs/InAlAs photoconductive antenna detector

Y Zhang, X Zhang, S Li, J Gu, Y Li, Z Tian, C Ouyang… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
We demonstrate a 4-f terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system using an
organic crystal DSTMS as the THz emitter and a low temperature grown (LTG) …

Plasmonic antireflection coating for photoconductive terahertz generation

F Fesharaki, A Jooshesh, V Bahrami-Yekta… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Plasmon-enhanced photoconductive antennas allow for improved performance, particularly
in below-band-gap absorption devices using low-temperature-grown GaAs. Here we design …

Plasmon-enhanced LT-GaAs/AlAs heterostructure photoconductive antennas for sub-bandgap terahertz generation

A Jooshesh, F Fesharaki, V Bahrami-Yekta… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Photocurrent generation in low-temperature-grown GaAs (LT-GaAs) has been significantly
improved by growing a thin AlAs isolation layer between the LT-GaAs layer and semi …

Silicon field effect transistor as the nonlinear detector for terahertz autocorellators

K Ikamas, I Nevinskas, A Krotkus, A Lisauskas - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
We demonstrate that the rectifying field effect transistor, biased to the subthreshold regime,
in a large signal regime exhibits a super-linear response to the incident terahertz (THz) …

Photoconductive terahertz generation from textured semiconductor materials

CM Collier, TJ Stirling, IR Hristovski, JDA Krupa… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Photoconductive (PC) terahertz (THz) emitters are often limited by ohmic loss and
Joule heating—as these effects can lead to thermal runaway and premature device …