English

Polarisation-Sensitive THz Detectors

Other Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We have developed a detector of coherent terahertz (THz) radiation that can recover the full polarisation state of a THz transient. The device is three-contact photoconductive receiver, which is capable of recording two time-varying electric field components of a THz pulse simultaneously. Our receiver was fabricated on Fe+ implanted InP and showed a cross-polarised extinction ratio greater than 100:1. The detector will be useful for spectroscopy of birefringent and optically active materials.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0602230,
  title  = {Polarisation-Sensitive THz Detectors},
  author = {M. B. Johnston and E. Castro-Camus and J. Lloyd-Hughes and M. D. Fraser and H. H. Tan and C. Jagadish},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0602230},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

2 pages, 3 figures, conference abstract