Semiconductor saturable absorbers for ultrafast THz signals

Details Semiconductor saturable absorbers for ultrafast THz signals Semiconductor saturable absorbers for ultrafast THz signals

2010-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/1003.1942v1

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Condensed Matter

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Submitted to Appl. Phys. Lett

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We demonstrate saturable absorber behavior of n-type semiconductors GaAs, GaP and Ge in THz frequency range at room temperature using nonlinear THz spectroscopy. The saturation mechanism is based on a decrease in electron conductivity of semiconductors at high electron momentum states, due to conduction band nonparabolicity and scattering into satellite valleys in strong THz fields. Saturable absorber parameters, such as linear and non-saturable transmission, and saturation fluence, are extracted by fits to a classic saturable absorber model. Further, we observe THz pulse shortening, and an increase of the group refractive index of the samples at higher THz pulse peak fields.

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