• DocumentCode
    2678227
  • Title

    THz from photoconductive antennas using circular and cylindrical Microlens arrays

  • Author

    Singh, Abhishek ; Awari, Nilesh ; Prabhu, S.S. ; Vengurlekar, A.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Tata Inst. of Fundamental Res., Mumbai, India
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    2-7 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We study the THz radiation emission from interdigitated Photo-Conductive Antennas (iPCAs) fabricated on Semi-insulating GaAs substrates and excited using 800nm, 10fs, 76MHz laser pulses through circular and cylindrical Microlens arrays put over the antennas. THz emission is an order of magnitude higher from cylindrical micro-lens array compared to circular micro-lens array, at the same bias voltage. The line excitation appears to be more efficient in generating THz than a point excitation.
  • Keywords
    antenna arrays; gallium arsenide; lens antennas; photoconducting devices; GaAs; circular microlens arrays; cylindrical microlens arrays; interdigitated photo-conductive antennas; photoconductive antennas; radiation emission; Antenna arrays; Lenses; Microoptics; Optical device fabrication; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2011 36th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Houston, TX
  • ISSN
    2162-2027
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0510-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2162-2027
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/irmmw-THz.2011.6105223
  • Filename
    6105223