Creating terahertz pulses from titanium-doped lithium niobate-based strip waveguides with 1.55 μm light
| Autor: | Jessica Afalla, Takashi Furuya, Masahiko Tani, Elmer Estacio, Qixin Guo, Joselito Muldera, Hideaki Kitahara, Katsuhiko Saito |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Materials science
business.industry Terahertz radiation Lithium niobate Physics::Optics Substrate (electronics) Condensed Matter Physics Signal Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials law.invention Crystal Condensed Matter::Materials Science Wavelength chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry law Optoelectronics Electrical and Electronic Engineering business Waveguide Common emitter |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics. 32:23164-23173 |
| ISSN: | 1573-482X 0957-4522 |
| Popis: | We demonstrate that terahertz radiation can be generated from titanium-diffused magnesium oxide-doped lithium niobate optical strip waveguides when pumped by a single laser source with a wavelength of 1.55 μm. Titanium-in-diffusion was performed on a magnesium oxide-doped lithium niobate substrate by the deposition of titanium in a 40-µm wide strip pattern and then annealing in a vacuum furnace. Prism-coupled Cherenkov-phase matching was utilized to extract the terahertz emission from the waveguide. The contrast between the emission from the waveguide against the bulk crystal when the sample was moved along its crystal facet was also recorded, where an improvement of ~ 18.0% in the time-domain peak signal of the waveguide was observed. The waveguide’s performance was also measured against that of a commercial terahertz emitter, a photoconductive antenna, where it was found that the time-domain signals of the two were comparable. The terahertz power spectra also revealed that the lithium niobate-based waveguides have a broader bandwidth by more than 1 THz, with a similar signal-to-noise ratio. As an effect, the waveguides gave a better signal at higher frequencies and, at times, reaching as high a difference of 20 dB. These results indicate the possibility of using titanium-in-diffusion to generate intense terahertz emission from titanium-doped lithium niobate waveguides and that these strip waveguides are viable alternatives to commercial terahertz emitters, especially at high frequencies. It is expected that much better output can be obtained from an optimized waveguide design and with more appropriate optics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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