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入射波激发半导体超晶格弛豫振荡:有效的太赫兹谐波产生

Excitation of relaxation oscillations in a semiconductor superlattice by incident waves: efficient terahertz harmonics generation

Anatoly A Ignatov

摘要:

理论研究了入射波激发弛豫振荡产生的半导体超晶格倍频太赫兹谐波。结果表明,弛豫振荡激发成为可行的,如果超晶格直流电阻是足够低的比较与外部波导系统的特征辐射阻抗。作为入射波功率的函数的所产生的谐波的功率在取决于超晶格峰值电流的特定输入功率水平下展示了阈值状行为。我们表明,对于典型的超晶格参数的卷的频率所产生的谐波主要是指定的等离子体频率的电子在超晶格的迷你带。我们认为,超晶格的迷你带宽的增加可以从根本上提高效率和产生的太赫兹谐波的光谱范围。

英文摘要:

Generation of terahertz harmonics by frequency multiplication with a semiconductor superlattice due to an excitation of relaxation oscillations by incident waves is investigated theoretically. It is shown that the relaxation oscillations excitation becomes feasible if the superlattice dc resistance is low enough in comparison with a characteristic radiation impedance of the external waveguide system. The power of the generated harmonics as a function of the incident wave power demonstrates a threshold-like behavior at a specific input power level dependent on the superlattice peak current. We demonstrate that for typical superlattice parameters the roll-of frequency of the generated harmonics is mostly specified by the plasma frequency of electrons in a superlattice miniband. We argue that an increase of the superlattice miniband widths could essentially enhance both the efficiency and the spectral range of the generated terahertz harmonics.

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