Abstract
We describe the saturation properties and power scaling of large-aperture planar photoconducting antennas. These antennas have been used to emit and detect electromagnetic pulses with terahertz bandwidth. At high optical fluences, the amplitude of the radiated electric field saturates, at a value comparable to the bias field in agreement with a simple model of the radiation. We also discuss the saturation properties of the large-aperture photoconducting antennas with different semiconductor materials.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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