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Fast Room Temperature Detection of State of Circular Polarization of Terahertz Radiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Sergey D. Ganichev ,
Hermann Ketterl  and
Wilhelm Prettl
Sergey D. Ganichev
Affiliation:
Institut für Experim. und Angew. Physik, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
Hermann Ketterl
Affiliation:
Institut für Experim. und Angew. Physik, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
Wilhelm Prettl
Affiliation:
Institut für Experim. und Angew. Physik, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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Abstract

We report on a room temperature detector which allows to determine and monitor the state of polarization of terahertz radiation with picosecond temporal resolution. The detector is based on the circular photogalvanic effect recently observed in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells. The circular photogalvanic effect yields in response to elliptically polarized radiation a current signal proportional to the degree of circular polarization. The peak current signal occurs in unbiased samples for circular polarization, vanishes at linear polarization and changes sign by switching the helicity from right-handed to left-handed. The detector consists of a (113)A MBE grown p-GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum well structure. The response has been measured in the wavelength range between 76 μm and 280 μm at normal incidence of the radiation on the sample.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 692: Symposium H – Progress in Semiconductor Materials for Optoelectronic Applications , 2001 , H4.3.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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