Active multifunctional terahertz modulator based on plasmonic metasurface
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Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Characterization of Plasmonic Photoconductive Terahertz Emitters
Published on: July 8, 2013
Abstract:
An active multifunctional terahertz modulator based on plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) metasurface under the effect of external infrared light was investigated theoretically and experimentally. A distinct transparency window, which resulted from the near-field coupling between two resonators, could be observed in the transmission spectra. Experimental results showed a phenomenon infrared light induced blue shift on the both resonator with increasing optical powers. When the optical power was tuned from 0 mW to 400 mW, the amplitude tunability of transmission at transparency window reached to 34.01%, much larger than that at the two resonance frequencies. Moreover, the phase tunability of the transmission at 0.98 THz reached to 31.35%. Meanwhile, the amplitude variation was limited to 10%. Furthermore, a coupled Lorentz oscillator model was adopted to analyze the near-field interaction of the resonances. Experimental results were in good agreement with the analytical fitting results.
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