Title :
Silicon PIN quasi-continuous wave Terahertz emitter
Author :
Hon, Nick K. ; Chen, Claire L. ; Liu, Wei ; Fetterman, Harold ; Jalali, Bahram
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Biomed. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Enhanced external efficiency, improved coherence and tunability are demonstrated for silicon PIN THz emitters by utilizing the internal reflection and multi optical pulse excitation.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; light coherence; light reflection; microwave photonics; optical tuning; p-i-n diodes; silicon; terahertz wave devices; terahertz wave generation; PIN quasicontinuous wave terahertz emitter; Si; coherence; external efficiency; internal reflection; multioptical pulse excitation; silicon PIN THz emitters; tunability; Broadband communication; CMOS integrated circuits; Correlation; Delay; Reflection; Semiconductor diodes; Substrates;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0826-8
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324069
