Affiliation:
1. Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering Rice University Houston TX 77005 USA
2. Applied Physics Graduate Program Rice University Houston TX 77005 USA
3. Nanotechnology Research Experience for Undergraduates (Nano REU) Program Rice University Houston TX 77005 USA
Abstract
AbstractPhotonics in the frequency range of 5–15 terahertz (THz) potentially open a new realm of quantum materials manipulation and biosensing. This range, sometimes called “the new terahertz gap”, is traditionally difficult to access due to prevalent phonon absorption bands in solids. Low‐loss phonon–polariton materials may realize sub‐wavelength, on‐chip photonic devices, but typically operate in mid‐infrared frequencies with narrow bandwidths and are difficult to manufacture on a large scale. Here, for the first time, quantum paraelectric SrTiO3 enables broadband surface phonon–polaritonic devices in 7–13 THz. As a proof of concept, polarization‐independent field concentrators are designed and fabricated to locally enhance intense, multicycle THz pulses by a factor of 6 and increase the spectral intensity by over 90 times. The time‐resolved electric field inside the concentrators is experimentally measured by THz‐field‐induced second harmonic generation. Illuminated by a table‐top light source, the average field reaches 0.5 GV m−1 over a large volume resolvable by far‐field optics. These results potentially enable scalable THz photonics with high breakdown fields made of various commercially available phonon–polariton crystals for studying driven phases in quantum materials and nonlinear molecular spectroscopy.
Funder
National Science Foundation
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science
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