Compact and ultra-efficient broadband plasmonic terahertz field detector

Most efficient terahertz detection schemes rely on complex free space optics and require high-power lasers. Here, the authors report an integrated plasmonic terahertz detector on a silicon photonics platform, with 2.5 THz bandwidth and a 65 dB dynamical range operating at an optical power of only 63...

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Main Authors: Yannick Salamin, Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Wolfgang Heni, Delwin L. Elder, Larry R. Dalton, Jérôme Faist, Juerg Leuthold
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13490-x