Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, Volume. 36, Issue 2, 322(2016)

The Detection of Ultra-Broadband Terahertz Spectroscopy of InP Wafer by Using Coherent Heterodyne Time-Domain Spectrometer

ZHANG Liang-liang1、*, ZHANG Rui2, XU Xiao-yan1, and ZHANG Cun-lin1
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    Indium Phosphide (InP) has attracted great physical interest because of its unique characteristics and is indispensable to both optical and electronic devices. However, the optical property of InP in the terahertz range (0.110 THz) has not yet been fully characterized and systematically studied. The former researches about the properties of InP concentrated on the terahertz frequency between 0.1 and 4 THz. The terahertz optical properties of the InP in the range of 4~10 THz are still missing. It is fairly necessary to fully understand its properties in the entire terahertz range, which results in a better utilization as efficient terahertz devices. In this paper, we study the optical properties of undoped (100) InP wafer in the ultra-broad terahertz frequency range (0.5~18 THz) by using air-biased-coherent-detection (ABCD) system, enabling the coherent detection of terahertz wave in gases, which leads to a significant improvement on the dynamic range and sensitivity of the system. The advantage of this method is broad frequency bandwidth from 0.2 up to 18 THz which is only mainly limited by laser pulse duration since it uses ionized air as terahertz emitter and detector instead of using an electric optical crystal or photoconductive antenna. The terahertz pulse passing through the InP wafer is delayed regarding to the reference pulse and has much lower amplitude. In addition, the frequency spectrum amplitude of the terahertz sample signal drops to the noise floor level from 6.7 to 12.1 THz. At the same time InP wafer is opaque at the frequencies spanning from 6.7 to 12.1 THz. In the frequency regions of 0.8~6.7 and 12.1~18 THz it has relativemy low absorption coefficient. Meanwhile, the refractive index increases monotonously in the 0.8~6.7 THz region and 12.1~18 THz region. These findings will contribute to the design of InP based on nonlinear terahertz devices.

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    ZHANG Liang-liang, ZHANG Rui, XU Xiao-yan, ZHANG Cun-lin. The Detection of Ultra-Broadband Terahertz Spectroscopy of InP Wafer by Using Coherent Heterodyne Time-Domain Spectrometer[J]. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2016, 36(2): 322

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    Paper Information

    Received: Dec. 19, 2014

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Dec. 9, 2016

    The Author Email: Liang-liang ZHANG (zhlliang@126.com)

    DOI:10.3964/j.issn.1000-0593(2016)02-0322-04

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