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Carbon nanotubes for polarization sensitive terahertz plasmonic interferometry

Materials Science 2021-11-10 v1

Abstract

We report on helicity sensitive photovoltaic terahertz radiation response of a carbon nanotube made in a conguration of a field effect transistor. We find that the magnitude of the rectified voltage is different for clockwise and anticlockwise circularly polarized radiation. We demonstrate that this effect is a fingerprint of the plasma waves interference in the transistor channel. We also find that that the presence of the helicity- and phase-sensitive interference part of the photovoltaic response is a universal phenomenon which is obtained in the systems of different dimensionality with different single particle spectrum. Its magnitude is characteristic of the plasma wave decay length. This opens up a wide avenue for applications in the area of plasmonic interferometry.

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@article{arxiv.2108.03883,
  title  = {Carbon nanotubes for polarization sensitive terahertz plasmonic interferometry},
  author = {Y. Matyushkin and S. Danilov and M. Moskotin and G. Fedorov and A. Bochin and I. Gorbenko and V. Kachorovskii and S. Ganichev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03883},
  year   = {2021}
}
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