[18p-221B-1~15] 4.6 Terahertz Photonics

▲ [18p-221B-8] Sensitivity Enhancement of Electro-Optic Sampling of Terahertz Pulsed Waves by Polarization Filtering

〇Masahiko Tani¹, Hideaki Kitahara¹, Hiroyuki Kato¹, Masaki Shiihara¹, Akihiro Esaki¹, Jessica Afalla¹, Valynn Mag-usara¹, Takashi Furuya¹, Mary Clare Escano¹, Kohji Yamamoto¹, Elmer Estacio², Michael Bakunov³ (1.FIR UF, 2.Univ. of Philippines, 3.Univ. of Nizhny Novgorod)

Keywords:terahertz, electro-optic sampling, polarization filtering

We have conducted a series of terahertz (THz) electro-optic (EO) sampling measurements in the relatively weak THz signal regime and proved that by using “polarization filtering” the signal-to-noise ratio is improved as well as the EO signal magnitude in the EO sampling detection of THz pulsed waves. In the conference presentation, we discuss the noise characteristics in the THz EO sampling and the optimized condition for application of the “polarization filtering”.