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Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Characterization of Plasmonic Photoconductive Terahertz Emitters
Published on: July 8, 2013
Resonant phase jump with enhanced electric field caused by surface phonon polariton in terahertz region
Takanori Okada1, Masaya Nagai, Koichiro Tanaka
1Pioneering Research Unit for Next Generation, Kyoto University, Kyoto 6158245, Japan. t.okada@kupru.iae.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
We investigated surface phonon polariton in cesium iodide with terahertz time-domain attenuated total reflection method in Otto configuration, which gives us both information on amplitude and phase of surface electromagnetic mode directly. Systematic experiments with precise control of the distance between a prism and an active material show that the abrupt change of pi-phase jump appears sensitively under polariton picture satisfied when the local electric field at the interface becomes a maximum. This demonstration will open the novel phase-detection terahertz sensor using the active medium causing the strong enhancement of terahertz electric field.
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