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Sunday, June 10, 2018
Abstract- Terahertz Electro-Optic Sampling in Thick ZnTe Crystals Below the Reststrahlen Band With a Broadband Femtosecond Laser
Bang Wu, Lei Cao, Zhe Zhang, Qiang Fu, Yongqian Xiong
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8319525/
The method of electro-optic (EO) sampling of terahertz (THz) pulses in thick EO crystals leads to waveform distortions due to effects of phase mismatch, dispersive propagation, and absorption. In this paper, we demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that EO sampling with a broadband femtosecond (fs) laser could significantly eliminate these distortions below the Reststrahlen band. Our simulation results show that the oscillations and dips in the signals of EO response function of thick crystals are smoothed out by the broadband spectrum of the femtosecond laser. In the experiment, we use a laser with a bandwidth of 100 nm and a low temperature GaAs photoconductive antenna to generate typical THz pulses (0.1-3 THz). The measurement results confirm that a {110}-oriented 3-mm-thick ZnTe crystal is an attractive EO material for sampling THz pulse below 3 THz and agree with simulation results. This technique is particularly useful in areas where a large time window is needed, for example in the THz time-domain spectroscopy system.
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