Terahertz Optoelectronics

The book presents recent and important developments in the field of terahertz radiation with a particular focus on pulsed terahertz radiation. Situated in the gap between electronics and optics, the terahertz frequency range of the electro-magnetic spectrum has long been neglected by scientists and engineers due to a lack of efficient and affordable terahertz sources and detectors. The advent of femtosecond lasers in the 1980s and photoconductive switches in 1984 have made the terahertz gap accessible, while at the same time advances in electronics and optics have made it narrower. Research activities in terahertz frequencies have risen dramatically since that time, funding has increased by a factor of 100 in the last decade. The reviews by leading experts are of interest to researchers and engineers as well as advanced students. Introduction To Terahertz Pulses / Kiyomi Sakai, Masahiko Tani -- Generation And Detection Of Broadband Pulsed Terahertz Radiation / Shunsuke Kono, Masahiko Tani, Kiyomi Sakai -- Terahertz Radiation From Semiconductor Surfaces / Ping Gu, Masahiko Tani -- Enhanced Generation Of Terahertz Radiation From Semiconductor Surfaces With External Magnetic Field / Hideyuki Ohtake, Shingo Ono, Nobuhiko Sarukura -- Terahertz Radiation From Bulk And Quantum Semiconductor Structures / Yutaka Kadoya, Kazuhiko Hirakawa -- Generation Of Cw Terahertz Radiation With Photomixing / Shuji Matsuura, Hiroshi Ito -- Terahertz Time-domain Spectroscopy / Seizi Nishizawa [and Others] -- Terahertz Optics In Strongly Correlated Electron Systems / Noriaki Kida, Hironaru Murakami, Masayoshi Tonouchi -- Terahertz Imaging / Michael Herrmann, Ryoichi Fukasawa, Osamu Morikawa. Kiyomi Sakai (ed.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "The book presents recent and important developments in the field of terahertz radiation with a particular focus on pulsed terahertz radiation. Situated in the gap between electronics and optics, the terahertz frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum has long been neglected by scientists and engineers due to a lack of efficient and affordable terahertz sources and detectors. The advent of femtosecond lasers in the 1980s and photoconductive switches in 1984 have made the terahertz gap accessible, while at the same time advances in electronics and optics have make it narrower. Research activities in terahertz frequencies have risen dramatically since that time, funding has increased by a factor of 100 in the last decade. The reviews by leading experts are of interest to researchers and engineers as well as advanced students."--BOOK JACKET Introduction to Terahertz Pulses....Pages 1-30 Generation and Detection of Broadband Pulsed Terahertz Radiation....Pages 31-62 Terahertz Radiation from Semiconductor Surfaces....Pages 63-98 Enhanced Generation of Terahertz Radiation from Semiconductor Surfaces with External Magnetic Field....Pages 99-116 Terahertz Radiation from Bulk and Quantum Semiconductor Structures....Pages 117-156 Generation of CW Terahertz Radiation with Photomixing....Pages 157-202 Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy....Pages 203-270 Terahertz Optics in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems....Pages 271-330 Terahertz Imaging....Pages 331-382