Terahertz spectroscopy in biomedical field: a review on signal-to-noise ratio improvement

Y Peng, C Shi, Y Zhu, M Gu, S Zhuang - PhotoniX, 2020 - Springer
With the non-ionizing, non-invasive, high penetration, high resolution and spectral
fingerprinting features of terahertz (THz) wave, THz spectroscopy has great potential for the …

Metallic and dielectric metasurfaces in photoconductive terahertz devices: a review

AE Yachmenev, DV Lavrukhin, IA Glinskiy… - Optical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This review highlights recent and novel trends focused on metallic (plasmonic) and dielectric
metasurfaces in photoconductive terahertz (THz) devices. We demonstrate the great …

[HTML][HTML] Physics and applications of terahertz metagratings

S Rane, S Prabhu, DR Chowdhury - Opto-Electronic Science, 2024 - oejournal.org
One dimensional sub-wavelength gratings, also known as metagratings have attracted
enormous attention due to the relatively simpler design configurations with versatile …

Intense terahertz generation from photoconductive antennas

E Isgandarov, X Ropagnol, M Singh, T Ozaki - Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we review the past and recent works on generating intense terahertz (THz)
pulses from photoconductive antennas (PCAs). We will focus on two types of large-aperture …

[HTML][HTML] Terahertz photoconductive emitter with dielectric-embedded high-aspect-ratio plasmonic grating for operation with low-power optical pumps

DV Lavrukhin, AE Yachmenev, IA Glinskiy… - AIP Advances, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the design, optimization and fabrication of a plasmon-assisted terahertz (THz)
photoconductive antenna (PCA) for THz pulse generation at low-power optical pumps. The …

Boosting photoconductive large-area THz emitter via optical light confinement behind a highly refractive sapphire-fiber lens

DS Ponomarev, DV Lavrukhin, NV Zenchenko… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report on a sapphire-fiber-based lens that can be used to enhance the emitted THz
power of a large-area photoconductive antenna (PCA). Using numerical simulations, we …

Numerical investigation and circuit analysis of interdigitated photoconductive antenna for terahertz applications

V Rathinasamy, RR Thipparaju, ENF Boby… - Optical and Quantum …, 2022 - Springer
Terahertz generation through photoconductive antenna (PCA) is quite popular mainly due to
the advancement of nanotechnology and material research. An extensive investigation of …

High-power terahertz pulse generation from bias-free nanoantennas on graded composition InGaAs structures

PK Lu, D Turan, M Jarrahi - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We present a bias-free photoconductive emitter that uses an array of nanoantennas on an
InGaAs layer with a linearly graded Indium composition. The graded InGaAs structure …

Optical-to-microwave frequency conversion with Rydberg excitons

D Ziemkiewicz, S Zielińska-Raczyńska - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
A copper-based plasmonic system is presented to provide optical-to-microwave photon
conversion. The process uses highly excited levels in Cu 2 O Rydberg excitons and takes …

A polarization-resolved study of nanopatterned photoconductive antenna for enhanced terahertz emission

G Rana, A Bhattacharya, A Gupta… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz (THz) frequencies, despite having the potential for several important applications,
have been relatively underexplored in the past owing to the unavailability of proper sources …