Theoretical Investigation on Microcavity Coupler for Terahertz Quantum-Well Infrared Photodetectors

Xuguang Guo; Yuxiang Ren; Guixue Zhang; Anqi Yu; Xiaoshuang Chen; Yiming Zhu

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3025349

IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Theoretical Investigation on Microcavity Coupler for Terahertz Quantum-Well Infrared Photodetectors

Xuguang Guo,
Yuxiang Ren,
Guixue Zhang,
Anqi Yu,
Xiaoshuang Chen,
Yiming Zhu

Affiliations

Xuguang Guo: ORCiD; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, Terahertz Spectrum and Imaging Technology Cooperative Innovation Center, Terahertz Technology Innovation Research Institute, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Yuxiang Ren: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, Terahertz Spectrum and Imaging Technology Cooperative Innovation Center, Terahertz Technology Innovation Research Institute, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Guixue Zhang: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, Terahertz Spectrum and Imaging Technology Cooperative Innovation Center, Terahertz Technology Innovation Research Institute, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Anqi Yu: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, Terahertz Spectrum and Imaging Technology Cooperative Innovation Center, Terahertz Technology Innovation Research Institute, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Xiaoshuang Chen: National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Yiming Zhu: ORCiD; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, Terahertz Spectrum and Imaging Technology Cooperative Innovation Center, Terahertz Technology Innovation Research Institute, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3025349
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 176149 – 176157

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Resonant behaviors and absorption enhancement of metallic grating-dielectric-metal (GDM) microcavity are theoretically investigated. The GDM structure is treated as periodic unit cells of two serially-connected metal-dielectric-metal (MDM) and air-dielectric-metal (ADM) waveguide resonators. The resonant modes can be divided into three types: the LC mode, the TEM modes supported by the MDM waveguide resonator, and the TEM-TM hybrid modes supported by the whole GDM structure. The resonant frequencies of LC and TEM modes are independent on a small incident oblique angle. However, for the TEM-TM hybrid modes, each mode splits into two branches with non-zero incident angles. Based on the temporal coupled-mode theory, the intersubband absorption efficiency of multi quantum wells inserted into the GDM microcavity is calculated and discussed qualitatively. We point out that the condition of critical coupling is not the optimal condition for intersubband absorption efficiency when the metallic loss cannot be neglected. An optimization procedure is given for the design of high performance GDM-microcavity-coupled terahertz quantum-well infrared photodetectors.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
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