Giant tunable Faraday effect in a semiconductor magneto-plasma for broadband terahertz polarization optics

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 19484-19492

  Arikawa, Takashi ^a   Wang, Xiangfeng ^a   Belyanin, Alexey A ^b   Kono, Junichiro ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FARADAY EFFECT; INDIUM ANTIMONIDES; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

BROADBAND TERAHERTZ; ELECTRON PLASMAS; POLARIZATION MODULATORS; POLARIZATION OPTICS; POLARIZATION ROTATION; TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; PLASMA GAS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PLASMA GASES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84865594527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.019484     Document Type: Article

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