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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Abstract-Optically thin hybrid cavity for terahertz photo-conductive detectors
R. J. Thompson1,2, T. Siday1, S. Glass1, T. S. Luk3,4, J. L. Reno3,4, I. Brener3,4, and O. Mitrofanov http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4974482 The efficiency of photoconductive (PC) devices, including terahertz detectors, is constrained by the bulk optical constants of PC materials. Here, we show that optical absorption in a PC layer can be modified substantially within a hybrid cavity containing nanoantennas and a Distributed Bragg Reflector. We find that a hybrid cavity, consisting of a GaAs PC layer of just 50 nm, can be used to absorb >75% of incident photons by trapping the light within the cavity. We provide an intuitive model, which describes the dependence of the optimum operation wavelength on the cavity thickness. We also find that the nanoantenna size is a critical parameter, small variations of which lead to both wavelength shifting and reduced absorption in the cavity, suggesting that impedance matching is key for achieving efficient absorption in the optically thin hybrid cavities.
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