Photonic THz mixers based on iron-doped InGaAs embedded in a plasmonic microcavity
oleh: Charbel Tannoury, Victor Merupo, Giuseppe Di Gioia, Vanessa Avramovic, David Troadec, Jean-François Lampin, Guillaume Ducournau, Steffen Breuer, Björn Globisch, Stefano Barbieri, Robert B. Kohlhaas, Emilien Peytavit
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| Diterbitkan: | AIP Publishing LLC 2023-11-01 |
Deskripsi
We present an optoelectronic mixer for the terahertz (THz) frequency-domain based on an iron-doped InGaAs layer integrated in a plasmonic microcavity. We show that this structure, under 1550-nm-wavelength illumination, allows for more than 70% absorption efficiency in a 220 nm-thin InGaAs absorber and very high Roff/Ron >1000. It leads to THz mixers driven by 1550-nm lasers showing conversion loss as low as ∼30 dB at 300 GHz. Therefore, this design is very promising for application as receivers in high-data-rate wireless telecom, in cw-THz spectrometers, or in photonics-enabled THz spectrum analyzers.