TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY OF OPTICALLY THICK MULTILAYERED SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES

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作者
RALPH, SE [1 ]
PERKOWITZ, S [1 ]
KATZENELLENBOGEN, N [1 ]
GRISCHKOWSKY, D [1 ]
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[1] IBM CORP,THOMAS J WATSON RES CTR,YORKTOWN HTS,NY 10598
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10.1364/JOSAB.11.002528
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Using freely propagating terahertz radiation, we have measured the complex dielectric constant of optically thick layered materials from 0.2 THz (6.6 cm(-1)) to 6 THz (200 cm(-1)). Transmission measurements of a CdTe-adhesive-Si structure have been successfully fitted to a theoretical model over the measurement range. The accuracy of the theoretical fit shows that the technique of time-domain spectroscopy offers advantages over other spectroscopic methods in the extreme far infrared below 200 cm(-1) The signal-to-noise capability of our terahertz-spectroscopy technique permits accurate measurement of power transmission coefficients less than 0.001 (absorption coefficients >5000 cm(-1)) and index variations larger than lambda(dn/d lambda) > 44, as demonstrated by the accurate fit of our data through the Reststrahlen region of CdTe.
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