Enhanced THz radiation emission from plasmonic complementary Sierpinski fractal emitters

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27336-27345

  Maraghechi, P ^a   Elezzabi, A Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FRACTALS; GASKETS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PLASMONS;

ANTENNA SURFACES; BOW TIE; EMISSION ENHANCEMENT; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; FRACTAL SURFACES; PLASMONIC; SELF-SIMILAR; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SIERPINSKI FRACTALS; SIERPINSKI GASKET; SPACE FILLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE PLASMONS; THZ EMITTERS; THZ RADIATION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; LIGHTING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 78650550607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027336     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. C. Jansen, S. Wietzke, O. Peters, M. Scheller, N. Vieweg, M. Salhi, N. Krumbholz, C. Jördens, T. Hochrein, and M. Koch, "Terahertz imaging: Applications and perspectives," Appl. Opt. 49(19), E48-E57 (2010).
2. D. Mittleman, Sensing with Terahertz Radiation (Springer, 2003).
3. K. J. Siebert, H. Quast, R. Leonhardt, T. Löffler, M. Thomson, T. Bauer, H. G. Roskos, and S. Czasch, "Continuous-wave all-optoelectronic terahertz imaging," Appl. Phys. Lett. 80(16), 3003-3005 (2002).
4. F. Miyamaru, Y. Saito, K. Yamamoto, T. Furuya, S. Nishizawa, and M. Tani, "Dependence of emission of terahertz radiation on geometrical parameters of dipole photoconductive antennas," Appl. Phys. Lett. 96(21), 211104 (2010).
5. Y. C. Shen, P. C. Upadhya, E. H. Linfield, H. E. Beere, and A. G. Davies, "Ultrabroadband terahertz radiation from low-temperature-grown GaAs photoconductive emitters," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83(15), 3117-3119 (2003).
6. M. Tani, S. Matsuura, K. Sakai, and S. Nakashima, "Emission characteristics of photoconductive antennas based on low-temperature-grown GaAs and semi-insulating GaAs," Appl. Opt. 36(30), 7853-7859 (1997).
7. R. Mendis, and C. Sydlo, "Tunable CW-THz system with a log-periodic photoconductive emitter," Solid-State Electron. 48(10-11), 2041-2045 (2004).
8. R. Mendis, and C. Sydlo, "Tunable CW-THz system with a log-periodic photoconductive emitter," Solid-State Electron. 48(10-11), 2041-2045 (2004).
9. M. van Exter, C. Fattinger, and D. Grischkowsky, "High brightness terahertz beams characterized with an ultrafast detector," Appl. Phys. Lett. 55(4), 337-339 (1989).
10. M. Tani, Y. Hirota, C. T. Que, S. Tanaka, R. Hattori, M. Yamaguchi, S. Nishizawa, and M. Hangyo, "Novel terahertz photoconductive antennas," Int. J. Infrared Milli. 27(4), 531-546 (2006).
11. M. Awad, M. Nagel, H. Kurz, J. Herfort, and K. Ploog, "Characterization of low temperature GaAs antenna array terahertz emitters," Appl. Phys. Lett. 91(18), 181124 (2007).
12. F. Miyamaru, Y. Saito, M. W. Takeda, L. Liu, B. Hou, W. Wen, and P. Sheng, "Emission of terahertz radiations from fractal antennas," Appl. Phys. Lett. 95(22), 221111 (2009).
13. J. Anguera, C. Puente, C. Borja, R. Montero, and J. Soler, "Small and high-directivity bow-tie patch antenna based on the Sierpinski fractal," Microw. Opt. Technol. Lett. 31(3), 239-241 (2001).
14. X. Liang, and M. Yan Wah Chia, "Multiband characteristics of two fractal antenna," Microw. Opt. Techin. Let. 23(4), 242-245 (1999).
15. J. Anguera, C. Puente, E. Martinez, and E. Rozan, "The fractal Hilbert monopole: A two-dimensional wire," Microw. Opt. Technol. Lett. 36(2), 102-104 (2003).