Continuous wave terahertz systems exploiting 1.5 microm telecom technologies

B Sartorius; M Schlak; D Stanze; H Roehle; H Künzel; D Schmidt; H-G Bach; R Kunkel; M Schell

doi:10.1364/oe.17.015001

Continuous wave terahertz systems exploiting 1.5 microm telecom technologies

Opt Express. 2009 Aug 17;17(17):15001-7. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.015001.

Authors

B Sartorius¹, M Schlak, D Stanze, H Roehle, H Künzel, D Schmidt, H-G Bach, R Kunkel, M Schell

Affiliation

¹ Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Einsteinufer 37, 10587 Berlin, Germany. [email protected]

PMID: 19687978
DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.015001

Abstract

A fiber-assembled CW THz System operating at 1.5 microm is presented. High speed telecom photodiodes integrated with planar THz antennas serve as THz emitters with power up to 10 microW. Photoconductive antennas based on LT InGaAs/InAlAs multi-layer structures allow coherent detection. The system operates in a wide frequency range of 0.1 -1.6 THz.