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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 19, Issue 14, Pages 13700-13706Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013700
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- Austrian Society for Microelectronics (GMe)
- Austrian Science Fund FWF [W1210]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [W1210] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [F 2503] Funding Source: researchfish
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We present a method of coupling free-space terahertz radiation to intersubband transitions in semiconductor quantum wells using an array of meta-atoms. Owing to the resonant nature of the interaction between metamaterial and incident light and the field enhancement in the vicinity of the metal structure, the coupling efficiency of this method is very high and the energy conversion ratio from in-plane to z field reaches values on the order of 50%. To identify the role of different aspects of this coupling, we have used a custom-made finite-difference time-domain code. The simulation results are supplemented by transmission measurements on modulation-doped GaAs/AlGaAs parabolic quantum wells which demonstrate efficient strong light-matter coupling between meta-atoms and intersubband transitions for normal incident electromagnetic waves. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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