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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2019
Oz Optics Ltd., Ottawa, CA;
OZ OPTICS LTD., Ottawa, CA;
Abstract
There is provided a design of a device consisting of a patterned semiconductor material to provide enhanced detection bandwidth and efficiency of terahertz (THz) pulses with an electro-optic sampling. One device has a semiconductor crystal having a patterned grating on a surface of the semiconductor. In a system, there could optionally be a quarter-wave plate after the semiconductor crystal, followed by a prism. A pair of balanced photodiodes can optionally be provided after the prism. A pulse laser having a NIR beam and THz beam is sent through the semiconductor crystal to the quarter-wave plate to the prism to the photodiodes, wherein the patterned grating on the semiconductor crystal diffracts the NIR beam while the THz remains unaffected. The photodiodes can detect the result.