Welsh, G.H. and Hunt, N.T. and Wynne, Klaas (2007) Terahertz-pulse emission by laser excitation of surface plasmons in a metal grating. In: 2007 Joint 32nd International Conference on Infrared and Millemeter Waves and 15th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics. IEEE, New York, pp. 884-885. ISBN 978-1-4244-1438-3
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Metallic nanostructures have been prepared by depositing thin layers of gold onto a fused-silica transmission grating. Excitation with 800-nm femtosecond laser pulses in air results in the emission of terahertz radiation with an angle-dependent efficiency and a third-order dependence on input power. Nanostructures consisting of metal nano-pyramids on glass as well as silver nano-pyramid arrays covered in gold also exhibit terahertz emission. We will show that the source of the terahertz radiation in all of these cases is surface-plasmon-assisted multiphoton ionisation and ponderomotive acceleration in the evanescent laser field.
| Item type: | Book Section |
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| ID code: | 27269 |
| Keywords: | terahertz pulse generation, surface waves, electron emission, Physics |
| Subjects: | Science > Physics |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics |
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| Depositing user: | Miss Leonie Airley |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2010 11:55 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 16:23 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/27269 |
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