雪崩倍增GaAs光电导太赫兹辐射源研究进展  

Research progress on avalanche multiplication GaAs photoconductive terahertz emitter

作　　者：施卫[1] 闫志巾[1] 

机构地区：[1]西安理工大学应用物理系,西安710048

出　　处：《物理学报》2015年第22期33-38,共6页Acta Physica Sinica

基　　金：国家自然科学基金重大科学仪器研制专项(批准号:61427814);国家自然科学基金(批准号:51377133);中国工程物理研究院太赫兹科学技术基金(批准号:CAEPTHZ201404);中国工程物理研究院脉冲功率重点实验室(批准号:PPLF2013PZ01);陕西省超快光电科学技术创新团队(批准号:2014KCT-13);装备预研基金(批准号:9140C370504140C37175)资助的课题~~

摘　　要：在飞秒激光激励下用GaAs光电导开关作为太赫兹(THz)辐射天线,已经广泛用于太赫兹时域光谱系统,但目前国际上都是使用GaAs光电导开关的线性工作模式,而GaAs光电导开关的雪崩倍增工作模式所输出的超快电脉冲功率容量远大于其线性工作模式,迄今为止,还没有人提出用雪崩倍增机理的GaAs光电导开关作为辐射源产生THz电磁辐射.本文探讨了用雪崩倍增工作模式的GaAs光电导开关作为光电导天线产生THz电磁波的可能性及研究进展.通过理论分析及实验研究,在实验上实现了:1)利用nJ量级飞秒激光触发GaAs光电导天线,可以进入雪崩倍增工作模式;2)利用光激发电荷畴的猝灭模式,可以使GaAs光电导天线载流子雪崩倍增模式的延续时间(lock-on时间)变短.这为利用具有雪崩倍增机理的GaAs光电导天线产生强THz辐射奠定了基础.GaAs photoconductive switch illuminated by a femto-second laser has been widely used in a terabertz （THz） time domain spectroscopy system as a THz wave emission antenna. Now, all of the GaAs photoconductive switches are used in linear mode. However, when the CaAs photoconductive switch operates in an avalanche multiplication mode, the power capacity of output ultrafast electric pulse is much higher than that in a linear mode. So far, nobody has proposed the idea of generating THz waves by using the CaAs photoconductive switches in the avalanche multiplication mode. In this paper, we report the feasibility and research progress of using the GaAs photoconductive switches in the avalanche multiplication mode as the THz sources. By theoretical analysis and experimental research, some results are obtained experimentally as follows. 1） The GaAs photoconductive antenna can operate in an avalanche multiplication mode when illuminated by a femto-second laser pulse with an energy on the order of nJ. 2） The maintaining time of the avalanche multiplication mode, i.e, lock-on period, can be reduced by the quenching mode of photo-activated charge domain. These results lay the foundation for generating the high intensity THz emission by the GaAs photoconductive antenna with the avalanche multiplication mechanism.

关 键 词：GAAS光电导开关 光电导天线 光激发电荷畴 雪崩倍增 

分 类 号：O441.4[理学—电磁学]