• 文献标题:   Terahertz light-emitting graphene-channel transistor toward single-mode lasing
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YADAV D, TAMAMUSHI G, WATANABE T, MITSUSHIO J, TOBAH Y, SUGAWARA K, DUBINOV AA, SATOU A, RYZHII M, RYZHII V, OTSUJI T
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, laser, far infrared or terahertz, pumping, current injection, distributedfeedback, optoelectronic
  • 出版物名称:   NANOPHOTONICS
  • ISSN:   2192-8606 EI 2192-8614
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tohoku Univ
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1515/nanoph-2017-0106
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

A distributed feedback dual-gate graphene-channel field-effect transistor (DFB-DG-GFET) was fabricated as a current-injection terahertz (THz) light-emitting laser transistor. We observed a broadband emission in a 1-7.6-THz range with a maximum radiation power of similar to 10 mu W as well as a single-mode emission at 5.2 THz with a radiation power of similar to 0.1 mu W both at 100 K when the carrier injection stays between the lower cutoff and upper cutoff threshold levels. The device also exhibited peculiar nonlinear threshold-like behavior with respect to the current-injection level. The LED-like broadband emission is interpreted as an amplified spontaneous THz emission being transcended to a single-mode lasing. Design constraints on waveguide structures for better THz photon field confinement with higher gain overlapping as well as DFB cavity structures with higher Q factors are also addressed towards intense, single-mode continuous wave THz lasing at room temperature.