Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 19, 1913025(2024)

Encapsulation Optimization for Photoconductive Antennas Based on Semi-Insulating GaAs

Zitong Zhang1、*, Tianyi Wang1, Yufei Guo1, Jin Li2, Tianyi Jiang1, Jianbo Wang1, Zhiqiang Qi1, and Chensheng Wang1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Huazhong Institute of Electro-Optics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan 430223, Hubei , China
  • 2Daheng New Epoch Technology, Inc., Beijing 100085, China
  • show less

    Considering the low-terahertz transmission power of typical photoconductive antenna (PCA) chips, this study uses Si3N4 and silicone gel to passivate and package PCA chips and uses a terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system to measure the terahertz waveform. The experiments show that: 1) Si3N4 passivation increases the device resistance without laser illumination by approximately an order of magnitude, enhances the terahertz pulse amplitude sixfold, and extends the terahertz spectral width detected in an atmospheric environment from 1.5 THz to approximately 3.0 THz; 2) silicone gel converges or diverges the pump laser beam and improved the dielectric strength of the device at least by 1.4 times, thus enhancing the pulse amplitude by 1.5 times.

    Keywords
    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Zitong Zhang, Tianyi Wang, Yufei Guo, Jin Li, Tianyi Jiang, Jianbo Wang, Zhiqiang Qi, Chensheng Wang. Encapsulation Optimization for Photoconductive Antennas Based on Semi-Insulating GaAs[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(19): 1913025

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Category: Integrated Optics

    Received: Jun. 30, 2024

    Accepted: Jul. 5, 2024

    Published Online: Oct. 15, 2024

    The Author Email: Zhang Zitong (zhang-zt18@tsinghua.org.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP241573

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP241573

    Topics