Resonant-Optical-Cavity Photoconductive Switch With 0.5% Conversion Efficiency and 1.0 W Peak Power
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2006
Identifier/URL
40289981 (Pure); 33745754166 (QABO)
Abstract
We report a new photoconductive switch having an average output power of 44 microW, an instantaneous bandwidth of approximately 300 GHz, an output pulse width of approximately 2.2 ps, a peak output power of approximately 1.0 W, and an optical-to-electrical conversion efficiency of approximately 0.5% when pumped by a palm-sized mode-locked free-space laser at lambda=780.6 nm with an average power of 8.7 mW and an optical pulse width of approximately -230 fs. The switch is made from an ErAs:GaAs epitaxial layer inside a resonant optical cavity and coupled to a planar three-turn square spiral antenna.
Repository Citation
Kazemi, H.,
Nagy, G.,
Tran, L.,
Grossman, E.,
Brown, E. R.,
Gossard, A. C.,
Boreman, G. D.,
Lail, B.,
Young, A. C.,
& Zimmerman, J. D.
(2006). Resonant-Optical-Cavity Photoconductive Switch With 0.5% Conversion Efficiency and 1.0 W Peak Power. Optics Letters, 31 (11), 1729-1731.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/physics/1304
DOI
10.1364/OL.31.001729
