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Phase-Shifted Fresnel Zone Lenses for Photomixing Generation of Coherent THz Wave

Anand Vijayakumar, +2 more
- 22 Jun 2012 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 7, pp 070206
TLDR
In this article, phase-shifted Fresnel zone lenses (FZLs) were used for THz wave generation by mixing optical beams from integrated twin lasers on GaAs photomixers.
Abstract
Novel optics configurations simplified by using phase-shifted Fresnel zone lenses (FZLs) are proposed for THz wave generation by mixing optical beams from integrated twin lasers on GaAs photomixers. The phase-shifted FZL superimposes and collinearly collimates the beams from the closely-aligned twin lasers, or superimposes and focuses them directly onto a photomixer, with a high efficiency. Phase-shifted binary and analog FZLs were designed and fabricated by electron beam writing. Good performances close to the theoretical prediction were obtained, and THz wave generation was successfully demonstrated.

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