Nanoplasmonic photoconductive antenna for high power terahertz emission

Author

Park, S. ; Jin, K. ; Ye, J. ; Jeong, K.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Bio & Brain Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol. (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 June 2011

Firstpage

2498

Lastpage

2501

Abstract

This work presents a nanoplasmonic photoconductive antenna (NP-PCA) for high power terahertz emission. Plasmonically matched metal nanostructures are integrated on a photoconductive bow-tie type THz antenna by incorporating microfabrication and electron-beam lithography. The plasmonic resonance wavelength of metal nanostructure is matched with the optical wavelength of incident pulsed beam. Metal nanostructures make high field enhancement of the pump beam. Photocurrent is highly generated by increasing light concentration near the photoconductive area. The results show that THz wave emission field increases 66%. This noble method can provide a potential of plasmonics for optoelectronic devices as increasing incoupling efficiency.

Keywords

antennas; electron beam lithography; microfabrication; nanofabrication; nanophotonics; plasmonics; electron-beam lithography; high power terahertz emission; light concentration; microfabrication; nanoplasmonic photoconductive antenna; photocurrent; plasmonic resonance wavelength; plasmonically matched metal nanostructures; Antennas; Optical beams; Optical pumping; Plasmons; Principal component analysis; Substrates; Ultrafast optics; Plasmonic nanoantenna; THz wave; photoconductive antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference (TRANSDUCERS), 2011 16th International

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0157-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2011.5969751

Filename

5969751