• 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