All fiber-coupled THz-TDS system with kHz measurement rate based on electronically controlled optical sampling

We demonstrate a completely fiber-coupled terahertz (THz) time-domain spectrometer ( TDS) system based on electronically controlled optical sampling with two erbium-doped femtosecond fiber lasers at a central wavelength of 1560 nm. The system employs optimized InGaAs/InAlAs photoconductive antennas for THz generation and detection. With this system, we achieve measurement rates of up to 8 kHz and up to 180 ps scan range. We further achieve 2 THz spectral bandwidth and a dynamic range of 76 dB at only 500 ms measurement time. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America