Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 19, 1913025(2024)
Encapsulation Optimization for Photoconductive Antennas Based on Semi-Insulating GaAs
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.
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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
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)
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