DocumentCode
1692101
Title
Ultrafast optical tuning of superconducting terahertz metamaterials
Author
Singh, Ranjan ; Xiong, Jie ; Azad, Abul K. ; Yang, Hao ; Trugman, Stuart A. ; Jia, Q.X. ; Taylor, Antoinette J. ; Chen, Hou-Tong
Author_Institution
Center for Integrated Nanotechnol., Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos, NM, USA
fYear
2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We demonstrate the ultrafast switching and tuning of the resonance in high temperature superconducting YBCO metamaterial excited by near infrared femtosecond laser pulses. The infrared photons break the Cooper pairs thus destroys the metamaterial resonance.
Keywords
Cooper pairs; barium compounds; high-speed optical techniques; high-temperature superconductors; metamaterials; microwave photonics; optical switches; optical tuning; terahertz wave spectra; yttrium compounds; Cooper pairs; YBCO; high temperature superconducting YBCO metamaterial; infrared photons; metamaterial resonance; near infrared femtosecond laser pulses; superconducting terahertz metamaterials; ultrafast optical tuning; ultrafast switching; Conductivity; Films; Metamaterials; Superconducting photodetectors; Ultrafast optics; Yttrium barium copper oxide;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1839-6
Type
conf
Filename
6327123
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