Tuning the terahertz emission power of an intrinsic josephson-junction stack with a focused laser beam

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Zhou, X J ^a,b,c   Yuan, J ^d   Wu, H ^b,e   Gao, Z S ^b   Ji, M ^a,b   An, D Y ^a   Huang, Y ^a   Rudau, F ^f   Wieland, R ^f   Gross, B ^f   Kinev, N ^g   Li, J ^a   Ishii, A ^b   Hatano, T ^b   Koshelets, V P ^g   Koelle, D ^f   Kleiner, R ^f   Wang, H B ^a,b,c   Wu, P H ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Cooperative Innovation Centre of Terahertz Science ^*  (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^e WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^g INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LASER BEAMS; QUANTUM OPTICS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

BATH TEMPERATURES; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; FOCUSED LASER BEAMS; GLOBAL RESPONSE; INTRINSIC JOSEPHSON JUNCTION; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; STACK TEMPERATURE; TERAHERTZ EMISSIONS;

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84951310356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.044012     Document Type: Article

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