Giant tunable Faraday effect in a semiconductor magneto-plasma for broadband terahertz polarization optics. Academic Article

abstract

• We report on a giant Faraday effect in an electron plasma in n-InSb probed via polarization-resolved terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy. Polarization rotation angles and ellipticities reach as large as /2 and 1, respectively, over a wide frequency range (0.3-2.5 THz) at magnetic fields of a few Tesla. The experimental results together with theoretical simulations show its promising ability to construct broadband and tunable THz polarization optics, such as a circular polarizer, half-wave plate, and polarization modulators.

authors

• Belyanin, Alexey

published proceedings

• Opt Express

altmetric score

• 10

author list (cited authors)

• Arikawa, T., Wang, X., Belyanin, A. A., & Kono, J.

citation count

• 62

complete list of authors

• Arikawa, Takashi||Wang, Xiangfeng||Belyanin, Alexey A||Kono, Junichiro

publication date

• August 2012

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

keywords

• Computer Simulation
• Magnetic Fields
• Models, Chemical
• Plasma Gases
• Refractometry
• Scattering, Radiation
• Semiconductors
• Terahertz Radiation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/OE.20.019484

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/185202

start page

• 19484

end page

• 19492

volume

• 20

issue

• 17

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1364%2Foe.20.019484