Electronically switchable extraordinary terahertz transmission through metallic hole arrays fabricated on a semiconductor substrate

Author

Chen, Hou-Tong ; Lu, Hong ; Azad, Abul K. ; O´Hara, John F. ; Gossard, Arthur C. ; Averitt, Richard D. ; Taylor, Antoinette J.

Author_Institution

MPA-CINT, Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos, NM

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrated electronically switchable extraordinary terahertz transmission through sub-wavelength metallic hole arrays fabricated on doped semiconductor substrates. A reverse voltage bias results in a controllable depletion thus tuning the substrate loss and switching the transmission.

Keywords

electro-optical switches; integrated optics; submillimetre wave spectra; surface plasmons; electronically switchable terahertz transmission; extraordinary terahertz transmission; metallic hole arrays; reverse voltage bias; semiconductor substrate; substrate loss tuning; subwavelength arrays; surface plasmonic devices; Dielectric substrates; Gold; Optical surface waves; Plasma properties; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Resonance; Semiconductor films; Switches; Voltage control; (230.3990) Micro-optical devices; (240.6680) Surface plasmons; (250.5403) Plasmonics; (300.6495) Spectroscopy, terahertz;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571391