Silicon-based terahertz waveguides

dc.contributor.advisorMurphy, Thomas E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLi, Shanshanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-18T05:49:09Z
dc.date.available2015-09-18T05:49:09Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, we present the design, fabrication and application of two types of silicon-based terahertz waveguides. The first is anisotropically etched highly doped silicon surface for supporting terahertz plasmonic guided wave. We demonstrate propagation of terahertz waves confined to a semiconductor surface that is periodically corrugated with subwavelength structures. We observe that the grating structure creates resonant modes that are confined near the surface. The degree of confinement and frequency of the resonant mode is found to be related to the pitch and depth of structures. The second is silicon dielectric ridge waveguide used to confine terahertz pulses and study silicon's terahertz intensity-dependent absorption. We observe that the absorption saturates under strong terahertz fields. By comparing the response between lightly-doped and intrinsic silicon waveguides, we confirm the role of hot carriers in this saturable absorption. We introduce a nonlinear dynamical model of Drude conductivity that, when incorporated into a wave propagation equation, predicts a comparable field-induced transparency and elucidates the physical mechanisms underlying this nonlinear effect. The results are numerically confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations of the Boltzmann transport equation, coupled with split-step nonlinear wave propagation.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2VS8C
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/17018
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledOpticsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMaterials Scienceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNonlinearen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSiliconen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTerahertzen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWaveguidesen_US
dc.titleSilicon-based terahertz waveguidesen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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