Photoconductive aperture antenna arrays for generation and detection of terahertz radiation

Author

Saeedkia, Daryoosh ; Esmaili-Rad, Mohammad-Reza ; Nagel, Michael

Author_Institution

Waterloo Res. & Technol. Park, T-Ray Sci. Inc., Waterloo, ON, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Photoconductive aperture antenna arrays are used in THz time domain systems as the transmitter and the receiver elements, and the radiation properties of the antennas are characterized in terms of the applied dc bias and the optical excitation power.

Keywords

antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; aperture antennas; photoconducting devices; submillimetre wave antennas; terahertz wave detectors; terahertz wave generation; time-domain analysis; THz time domain system; antenna radiation properties; applied DC bias; optical excitation power; photoconductive aperture antenna arrays; receiver elements; terahertz radiation detection; terahertz radiation generation; transmitter elements; Antenna arrays; Aperture antennas; Dipole antennas; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Optical transmitters; Photoconductivity; Power generation; Radiation detectors; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2009. IRMMW-THz 2009. 34th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5416-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5417-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2009.5324745

Filename

5324745