ErAs:GaAs Extrinsic Photoconductivity: A New Alternative for 1550-nm-Driven THz Sources

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Article

Publication Date

1-1-2014

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40280526 (Pure); 84901806214 (QABO)

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Abstract

This paper summarizes our recent progress on the discovery and THz performance of ErAs:GaAs photoconductive devices driven around 1550 nm. We will present the impulse response of such device in a time-domain spectrometer where the detection is realized with a GaAs electro-optic crystal. The full width at half-maximum of the temporal pulse is 500 fs and the corresponding bandwidth is greater than 2.5 THz. We also present different 1550-nm properties of this material including carrier lifetime by pump-probe phototransmission. All evidence to date suggests that the 1550-nm ultrafast behavior in ErAs:GaAs occurs by extrinsic photoconductivity, not two-photon effect.

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10.1117/12.2041781

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