Abstract
Output saturation observed for high power levels of input optical pump is a well-known bottleneck in the operation of terahertz photoconductive devices (PCDs). This saturation is a result of various screening effects that stem from the interactions between electromagnetic fields and semiconductor charge carriers. To simulate these effects, this work uses a time-domain multiphysics approach that solves a coupled system of the Maxwell and the drift-diffusion equations to rigorously take into account the two-way nonlinear coupling between fields and carriers. Furthermore, an optical absorption-based model is used to correctly compute the carrier generation rate. The resulting multiphysics solver is used to simulate realistic PCDs, and excellent agreement is observed between the simulation and experimental results.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI) |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-6654-9659-9 |
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| State | Published - Sep 21 2022 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-09-27Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): 2019-CRG8-4056
Acknowledgements: This work is supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under Award No. 2019-CRG8-4056. The authors thank the KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory (KSL) for providing the required computational resources.