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Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Characterization of Plasmonic Photoconductive Terahertz Emitters
Published on: July 8, 2013
Electrical control of terahertz frequency conversion from time-varying surfaces
Abstract:
We investigate the electrical control of frequency conversion from a time-varying interdigitated photo-conductive antenna (IPCA) and time-varying metasurface in the terahertz (THz) frequency range. Ultrafast near-infrared (NIR) optical pulses rapidly modify the conductivities of the IPCA and metasurface; however, external voltages can retard this conductivity transition. Thus, external voltages can be used to control the frequency conversion process based on the interaction between the THz waves and the time-varying surfaces. In the IPCA, both frequency up- and down-conversion processes are suppressed by external voltages. However, in the metasurface, the down-conversion is dramatically suppressed by external voltages, whereas the suppression on the up-conversion is less effective.
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