Surface plasmon enhanced THz emission with nanoporous gold supported CdTe

LUYI HUANG, LING ZHANG, JUNJIE ZHOU, MIN LI, CHUANG LI, CHUANQI LI, JINGQUAN ZHANG, SHENGHAO WANG, HEPING ZENG

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Abstract

Terahertz emission by ultrafast excitation of semiconductor/metal interfaces was found strongly enhanced by plasmon resonance. Here, a three-dimensional nanoporous gold (NPG) was used to form semiconductor/metal compound with cadmium telluride (CdTe). We investigated the specific impact of surface plasmon from randomly nanoporous structure in the ultrafast optoelectronic response for THz generation, and observed a THz amplitude enhancement around an order of magnitude from CdTe on NPG compared to that from CdTe on silicon. Moreover, the plasmon enhancement for THz emission from NPG is stronger than that from gold film, indicating that randomly nanoporous structure is also effective for plasmonic enhancement in THz band.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19853-19861
Number of pages9
JournalOptics Express
Volume29
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jun 2021

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