Terahertz pulse generation from metal nanoparticle ink

Kosaku Kato; Keisuke Takano; Yuzuru Tadokoro; Thanh Nhat Khoa Phan; Makoto Nakajima

doi:10.1117/12.2247769

3 November 2016 Terahertz pulse generation from metal nanoparticle ink

Kosaku Kato, Keisuke Takano, Yuzuru Tadokoro, Thanh Nhat Khoa Phan, Makoto Nakajima

Proceedings Volume 10030, Infrared, Millimeter-Wave, and Terahertz Technologies IV; 1003005 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2247769
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2016, Beijing, China

Abstract

Terahertz pulse generation from metallic nanostructures irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses is of interest because the conversion efficiency from laser pulses to terahertz waves is increased by the local field enhancement resulting from the plasmon oscillation. In this talk we present our recent study on terahertz generation from metal nanoparticle ink. We baked a silver nanoparticle ink spin-coated onto a glass coverslip in various temperatures. On the surface of the baked ink, bumpy nanostructures are spontaneously formed, and the average size of bumps depends on the baking temperature. These structures are expected to lead to local field enhancement and then large nonlinear polarizations on the surface. The baked ink was irradiated by the output of regeneratively amplified Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser at an incidence angle of 45°. Waveforms of generated terahertz pulses are detected by electro-optical sampling. The generation efficiency was high when the average diameter of bumps was around 100 nm, which is realized when the ink is baked in 205 to 235°C in our setup. One of our next research targets is terahertz wave generation from micro-patterned metallic nanoparticle ink. It is an advantage of the metal nanoparticle ink that by using inkjet printers one can fabricate various patterns with micrometer scales, in which terahertz waves have a resonance. Combination of microstructures made by a printer and nanostructure spontaneously formed in the baking process will provide us terahertz emitters with unique frequency characteristics.

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Kosaku Kato, Keisuke Takano, Yuzuru Tadokoro, Thanh Nhat Khoa Phan, and Makoto Nakajima "Terahertz pulse generation from metal nanoparticle ink", Proc. SPIE 10030, Infrared, Millimeter-Wave, and Terahertz Technologies IV, 1003005 (3 November 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2247769

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