• DocumentCode
    153263
  • Title

    Ultraviolet light emission from resonant gold dipole antennas in air illuminated with intense sub-picosecond terahertz transients

  • Author

    Iwaszczuk, K. ; Zalkovskij, Maksim ; Strikwerda, Andrew C. ; Jepsen, Peter Uhd

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    14-19 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    We experimentally show that metallic dipole antennas emit ultraviolet radiation when illuminated with ultrashort high-power terahertz pulses due to ultrafast electron field emission from the metal and consecutive ionization and excitation of atmospheric gas molecules.
  • Keywords
    dipole antennas; electron field emission; high-speed optical techniques; ionisation; atmospheric gas molecules; intense subpicosecond terahertz transients; ionization; metallic dipole antennas; resonant gold dipole antennas; ultrafast electron field emission; ultrashort high power terahertz pulses; ultraviolet light emission; ultraviolet radiation; Dipole antennas; Electric fields; Metals; Physics; Resonant frequency; Transient analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tucson, AZ
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2014.6956349
  • Filename
    6956349