Enhanced terahertz emission by coherent optical absorption in ultrathin semiconductor films on metals

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 16784-16798

  Ramakrishnan, Gopakumar ^a   Ramanandan, Gopika K P ^a   Adam, Aurele J L ^a   Xu, Man ^b   Kumar, Nishant ^a   Hendrikx, Ruud W A ^c   Planken, Paul C M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DESCALING; GERMANIUM; GOLD; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

AMORPHOUS GERMANIUM; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL RECTIFICATIONS; PARABOLOIDAL MIRROR; SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS; TERAHERTZ EMISSIONS; TERAHERTZ EMITTERS; TERAHERTZ GENERATION;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

GOLD; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84880515764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.016784     Document Type: Article

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