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The growing demand for high-capacity, low-loss short-reach links in highly integrated electronic systems makes it necessary to understand how terahertz (THz) dielectric waveguides behave in realistic PCB-level packaging environments. In…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Wenbo Liu , Jiabiao Zhao , Kefeng Huang , Peian Li , Baiquan Xu , Yang Cao , Weidong Hu , Jianjun Ma

Terahertz (THz) technology is rapidly evolving, and the advancement of data and information processing devices is essential. Silicon THz microresonators provide perfect platforms to develop compact and integrated devices that could…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-29 Dominik Walter Vogt

Metamaterial-based absorbers have been extensively investigated in the terahertz (THz) range with ever increasing performances. In this paper, we propose an all-dielectric THz absorber based on doped silicon. The unit cell consists of a…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-30 Huafeng Liu , Kai Luo , Danhua Peng , Fangjing Hu , Liangcheng Tu

Terahertz (THz) imaging has the ability to see through otherwise opaque materials. However, due to the long wavelengths of THz radiation ({\lambda}=300{\mu}m at 1THz), far-field THz imaging techniques are heavily outperformed by optical…

Inspired by the design concept of negative curvature hollow-core fibers, this paper presents an innovative negative curvature suspended-core THz fiber. Compared to traditional suspended-core fibers, all structural units of this fiber are…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-04 Jing Deng , Lei Fan , Qichao Hou , Xingfang luo , Chun-Fang Rao , Yuan-Feng Zhu

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-centric computing is driving exabyte-scale data transfer, pushing conventional interconnect technologies toward fundamental bandwidth and energy limits. Although optical…

We fabricate and characterize waveguides composed of closely spaced and longitudinally oriented silicon ridges etched into silicon-on-insulator wafers. Through both guided mode and bulk measurements, we demonstrate that the patterning of…

We propose and demonstrate a hybrid waveguide platform using layered amorphous silicon and silicon nitride. The waveguide offers more degrees of freedom to design waveguides with desired confinement, effective index and polarization…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-17 Rahul K Dash , Shankar Kumar Selvaraja

Coherent radiation with frequencies ranging from 0.3 to 30 THz has recently become accessible by femtosecond laser technology. Terahertz (THz) waves have already found many applications in spectroscopy and imaging, and they can be…

A superconducting microstrip half-wavelength resonator is proposed as a suitable band-pass filter for broadband moderate spectral resolution spectroscopy for terahertz (THz) astronomy. The proposed filter geometry has a free spectral range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-23 Alejandro Pascual Laguna , Kenichi Karatsu , David J. Thoen , Vignesh Murugesan , Bruno T. Buijtendorp , Akira Endo , Jochem J. A. Baselmans

Fibonacci or bifocal terahertz (THz) imaging is demonstrated experimentally employing silicon diffractive zone plate (SDZP) in a continuous wave mode. Images simultaneously recorded in two different planes are exhibited at 0.6 THz frequency…

We demonstrate a silicon-based, single-layer anti-reflection coating that suppresses the reflectivity of metals at near-infrared frequencies, enabling optical probing of nano-scale structures embedded in highly reflective surroundings. Our…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 M. Pancaldi , R. Freeman , M. Hudl , M. C. Hoffmann , S. Urazhdin , P. Vavassori , S. Bonetti

The quest for practical waveguides operating in the terahertz range faces two major hurdles: large losses and high rigidity. While recent years have been marked by remarkable progress in lowering the impact of material losses using…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-22 Alessio Stefani , Jonathan Skelton , Alessandro Tuniz

Here we perform a series of time-resolved experiments where a 100 fs pump pulse is tuned between 528 nm and 555 nm, across the second indirect gap of intrinsic silicon at ~540 nm which involves electrons in a higher-lying conduction band…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-24 Fabio Novelli , Jeffrey A Davis

Terahertz spectral range (frequencies of 0.1-1 THz) has recently emerged as the next frontier for non-destructive imaging, industrial sensing and ultra-fast wireless communications. Here, we review several classes of materials such as…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-07 Mathieu Poulin , Steven Giannacopoulos , Maksim Skorobogatiy

Terahertz (THz) frequency range, lying between the optical and microwave range covers a significant portion of the electro-magnetic spectrum. Though its initial usage started in the 1960s, active research in the THz field started only in…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ajanta Barh , B. P. Pal , G. P. Agrawal , R. K. Varshney , B. M. A. Rahman

Compact and low-loss photonic crystal waveguides are critical in integrated terahertz (THz) applications. Compared with pure metal or dielectric photonic crystal waveguides, hybrid (metal-dielectric) integrated waveguides provide a simple…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-03 Dejun Liu , Lin Chen , Feng Liu

Two highly birefringent polymer terahertz (THz) fibers were proposed in this paper, which were formed with honeycomb cladding and some elliptical air holes in the fiber core. The losses and mode birefringence for two different fibers are…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-14 Yu Hou , Fei Fan , Zi-Wei Jiang , Xiang-Hui Wang , Sheng-jiang Chang

Evanescent and tightly confined propagating waves exhibit a remarkable transverse spin density since the longitudinal component of the electric field is not negligible. In this work, we obtain via numerical simulations the electric field…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-20 Alba Espinosa-Soria , Alejandro Martinez

We demonstrated an ultra-broadband, polarization-insensitive and wide-angle metamaterial absorber for terahertz (THz) frequencies using arrays of truncated pyramid unit structure made of metal-dielectric multilayer composite. In our design…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-02 Jianfei Zhu , Zhaofeng Ma , Wujiong Sun , Fei Ding , Qiong He , Lei Zhou , Yungui Ma