Terahertz generation and detection using femtosecond mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser

Moon Sik Kong; Ji Su Kim; Sang-Pil Han; Namje Kim; Ki Won Moon; Kyung Hyun Park; Min Yong Jeon

doi:10.1117/12.2212114

2 May 2016 Terahertz generation and detection using femtosecond mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser

Moon Sik Kong, Ji Su Kim, Sang-Pil Han, Namje Kim, Ki Won Moon, Kyung Hyun Park, Min Yong Jeon

Proceedings Volume 9747, Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications IX; 97471B (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2212114
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We successfully demonstrate a THz generation using an ytterbium (Yb)-doped mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser and a home-made low-temperature grown (LTG) InGaAs Photoconductive antenna (PCA) module for THz Time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) systems. The Yb-doped fiber ring laser consists of a pump laser diode (PLD), a wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) coupler, a single-mode fiber (SMF), a 25 cm-long highly Yb-doped fiber, two collimators, two quarter wave plates (QWPs), a half-wave plate (HWP), a 10 nm broadband band pass filter, an isolator, and a polarizing beam splitter (PBS). In order to achieve the passively mode-locked optical short pulse, the nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) effect is used. The achieved center wavelength and the 3 dB bandwidth of the modelocked fiber laser are 1.03 μm and ~ 15.6 nm, respectively. It has 175 fs duration after pulse compression with 66.2 MHz repetition rate. The average output power of mode-locked laser has more than 275 mW. The LTG-InGaAs PCA modules are used as the emitter and receiver in order to achieve the THz radiation. The PCA modules comprise a hyper-hemispherical Si lens and a log-spiral antenna-integrated LTG-InGaAs PCA chip electronically contacted on a printed circuit board (PCB). An excitation optical average pumping and probing power were ~ 6.3 mW and 5 mW, respectively. The free-space distance between the emitter and the receiver in the THz-TDS system was 70 mm. The spectrum of the THz radiation is achieved higher than 1.5 THz.

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Moon Sik Kong, Ji Su Kim, Sang-Pil Han, Namje Kim, Ki Won Moon, Kyung Hyun Park, and Min Yong Jeon "Terahertz generation and detection using femtosecond mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 9747, Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications IX, 97471B (2 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2212114

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Terahertz radiation

Fiber lasers

Mode locking

Antennas

Indium gallium arsenide

Femtosecond phenomena

Polarization

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