Journal article
Terahertz field enhancement to the MV/cm regime in a tapered parallel plate waveguide
We investigate field enhancement properties of a tapered parallel plate waveguide for ultrashort terahertz (THz) pulses. We use two independent methods, air biased coherent detection inside the waveguide and free-space electro-optic sampling, respectively, which enables a calibrated, quantitative measurement of the field strength at the output of the waveguide.
Field enhancement factors greater than 20 are demonstrated and record-high field strengths of > 1.4 MV/cm are reached. We find an excellent agreement between the two independent methods of field measurement and a numerical 3D full-vectorial time-domain simulations.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2012 |
Pages: | 8344-8355 |
ISSN: | 10944087 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1364/OE.20.008344 |
ORCIDs: | Andryieuski, Andrei , Lavrinenko, Andrei and Jepsen, Peter Uhd |