Intense Terahertz Excitation of Semiconductors
Sergey Ganichev and Willi Prettl
Abstract
This book presents high-power terahertz applications to semiconductors and semiconductor structures. It aims to bridge the gap between optics and microwave physics. It focuses on a core topic of semiconductor physics, providing a full description of the state of art of the field. The book introduces new physical phenomena which occur in the terahertz frequency range at the transition from semi-classical physics with a classical field amplitude to the fully quantized limit with photons. It covers tunneling in high-frequency fields, nonlinear absorption of radiation and radiation heating, nonlin ... More
This book presents high-power terahertz applications to semiconductors and semiconductor structures. It aims to bridge the gap between optics and microwave physics. It focuses on a core topic of semiconductor physics, providing a full description of the state of art of the field. The book introduces new physical phenomena which occur in the terahertz frequency range at the transition from semi-classical physics with a classical field amplitude to the fully quantized limit with photons. It covers tunneling in high-frequency fields, nonlinear absorption of radiation and radiation heating, nonlinear optics in the classical sense, Bloch-oscillations and ponderomotive forces of the terahertz radiation on free carriers, photon drag and photogalvanic effects, and terahertz spin dependent phenomena being of importance in the field of spintronics. Background information for future work and references of current literature are given. The book also discusses various experimental aspects like the generation of high-power coherent terahertz radiation, properties of materials with respect to their application in optical components, and detection schemes of short intense terahertz pulses.
Keywords:
tunneling,
nonlinear,
phenomena,
photocurrents,
bloch oscillation,
sources,
detectors,
spintronics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198528302 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198528302.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Sergey Ganichev, author
Department of Physics, University of Regensburg
Willi Prettl, author
Department of Physics, University of Regensburg
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