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高温超导太赫兹超材料的光调谐和超快动力学

Optical tuning and ultrafast dynamics of high-temperature superconducting terahertz metamaterials

Ranjan Singh, Jie Xiong, Abul K. Azad, Hao Yang, Stuart A. Trugman, Q. X. Jia, Antoinette J. Taylor, Hou-Tong Chen

摘要:

通过将半导体或复合氧化物集成到金属谐振器中,已经通过使用外部刺激改变环境来实现可调谐超材料。金属提供高导电性以实现超材料中的强共振响应;然而,它们对可调谐性的贡献非常小。高温超导薄膜的复杂电导率对外部扰动高度敏感,这为直接从谐振元件获得可调谐超材料提供了新的机会。本文研究了近红外飞秒激光脉冲激励下,YBa_2Cu_3O_7-δ(YBCO)开口环谐振器阵列在太赫兹(THz)频率范围内的超快动态调谐。光激发使超导库珀对断裂,产生准粒子态。这极大地改变了复电导率的虚部,从而改变了超快时标中的超材料共振。我们观察到共振开关伴随着宽范围的频率调谐作为光激发通量的函数,这也强烈依赖于纳米尺度的超导膜的厚度。我们所有的实验结果都很好地再现通过计算使用的分析模型,考虑到SRR电阻和动力学电感贡献的YBCO薄膜的复杂的导电性。理论计算表明,随着光激发能量密度的增加,SRR电阻的增加是导致共振强度降低的原因,而电阻和动力学电感都有助于共振频率的调谐。

英文摘要:

Through the integration of semiconductors or complex oxides into metal resonators, tunable metamaterials have been achieved by a change of environment using an external stimulus. Metals provide high conductivity to realize a strong resonant response in metamaterials; however, they contribute very little to the tunability. The complex conductivity in high-temperature superconducting films is highly sensitive to external perturbations, which provides new opportunities in achieving tunable metamaterials resulting directly from the resonant elements. Here we demonstrate ultrafast dynamical tuning of resonance in the terahertz (THz) frequency range in YBa_2Cu_3O_7-δ(YBCO) split-ring resonator arrays excited by near-infrared femtosecond laser pulses. The photoexcitation breaks the superconducting Cooper pairs to create the quasiparticle state. This dramatically modifies the imaginary part of the complex conductivity and consequently the metamaterial resonance in an ultrafast timescale. We observed resonance switching accompanied with a wide range frequency tuning as a function of photoexcitation fluence, which also strongly depend on the nano-scale thickness of the superconducting films. All of our experimental results are well reproduced through calculations using an analytical model, which takes into account the SRR resistance and kinetic inductance contributed from the complex conductivity of YBCO films. The theoretical calculations reveal that the increasing SRR resistance upon increasing photoexcitation fluence is responsible for the reduction of resonance strength, and both the resistance and kinetic inductance contribute to the tuning of resonance frequency.

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