Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Abstract-Coherent terahertz radiation generated from a square-shaped free-electron beam passing through multiple stacked layers with sub-wavelength holes


Yucong Zhou, Yaxin Zhang, Guili Jiang and Zhenhua Wu
http://iopscience.iop.org/0022-3727/48/34/345102/article
Terahertz Science Cooperative Innovation Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, People's Republic of China 

This paper presents terahertz (THz) coherent radiation from the interaction between a square-shaped electron beam and guiding wave mode in a multiple stacked layers with sub-wavelength holes structure. The simulated results show that such a guiding wave mode enhances the field intensity in the electron beam channel so that the interaction is more efficient than the electron beam-surface wave interaction in traditional grating and bi-grating structures. This electron-beam-driven THz source provides a way with much simpler fabrication processes and a larger square size electron beam rather than sheet beam. Furthermore, such a source can be integrated to construct a 2D source-array structure, which demonstrates a good opportunity to generate high power THz radiation.

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