• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.181-182
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• 2006

Photoconductive three-wire folded dipole antennas for terahertz photomixers have been developed. The folded antennas are characterized by a free space time-domain measurement technique, and the measured data are in good agreement with the simulation results. The folded dipole antennas have much higher antenna resistance than other resonant dipole antennas, implying that they can be used for higher output power of THz photomixers.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.810-813
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• 2011

We report the use of a widely tunable detuned dual-mode laser diode (DML) as a compact and portable continuous-wave THz emitter. The wavelength difference between the two lasing modes of this DML can be tuned from 2.4 nm to 9.3 nm by using integrated microheaters. The power difference between these modes is less than 1 dB, and the side-mode suppression ratio is greater than 30 dB over the entire tuning range.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.335-339
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• 2018

The optical characteristics of a terahertz (THz) antenna-coupled bolometer (ACB) detector were evaluated using a pulsed quantum cascade laser (QCL) and radiation blackbody sources. We investigated a method for measuring the responsivity and noise-equivalent power (NEP) of the THz detector using two different types of light sources. When using a QCL source with a frequency of 3 THz, the average responsivity of 24 devices was $1.44{\times}10^3V/W$ and the average NEP of those devices was $3.33{\times}10^{-9}W/{\surd}Hz$. The average responsivity and NEP as measured by blackbody source were $1.79{\times}10^5V/W$ and $6.51{\times}10^{-11}W/{\surd}Hz$, respectively, with the measured values varying depending on the light source. This was because the output power of each light source was different, with the laser source being driven by a pulse type wave and the blackbody source being driven by a continuous wave. The power input to the THz sensor was also different. Futhermore, the responsivity and NEP values measured using band pass filter (BPF) were similar to those measured when using only THz windows. It was found that ACB sensor responds normally in the THz region to both the laser and the blackbody source, and the method was confirmed to effectively evaluate the characteristics of the THz sensor.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.974-982
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• 2009

Photomixing techniques beating two optical signals with different wavelengths and strong correlations are also very useful techniques to make a continuous wave(CW) signals in the range of millimeter(mm) and terahertz(THz) frequencies. An optical double sideband-suppressed carrier(DSB-SC) technique is one of the popular techniques to generate two optical signals with different wavelengths and strong correlations. DSB-SC signals with strong correlations are generated by a CW modulation of an optical carrier with a local oscillator and an optical modulator. In the previous parers related the DSB-SC for producing the CW signals within the range of mm and THz frequencies, there have been no reports why the optical carrier should suppress. In order to clear that, we have analyzed and measured the characteristics of the mm-wave CW signals made by the DSB-SC photomixing in this paper. From our analysis and measurement results, compared with the case of the DSB with the maximized optical carrier, the power and phase noise have improved about 23.9 dB and 21 dBc/Hz(@ 1 MHz offset frequency) in the case of the DSB with the minimized optical carrier (that is to say, the DSB-SC). Consequently, it is evident reason that the optical carrier should sufficiently suppress to obtain the mm-wave CW signals with the high power and low noise. This paper has given very helpful data to make mm- and THz-wave CW signals using photomixing techniques with the DSB-SC because the reason why the optical carrier should be suppressed is reported in this paper based on the numerical and experimental results.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.73-84
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• 2012

테라헤르츠파는 0.1~10THz 대역의 미개발 주파수 자원으로 전자기파 스펙트럼에서 적외선과 밀리미터파의 중간 영역에 위치한다. 전파의 투과성과 광파의 직진성을 동시에 가지고 있어 독특한 물리적 특성을 보유한 테라헤르츠파는 THz 소자, 분광, 영상 기술 등의 기초 과학과 의공학, 보안, 환경/우주, 정보통신 등의 응용 과학 분야에서 이미 그 중요성이 검증되어 향후 폭넓은 산업 응용으로 다양한 분야에서 새로운 형태의 시장이 형성될 것으로 기대된다. 이러한 테라헤르츠파 기술의 사회, 경제적 파급력을 극대화하기 위해서는 테라헤르츠 대역 소자의 특성을 향상시키고, 크기와 가격을 낮추는 것이 매우 중요하다. 본고에서는 크기와 가격을 낮출 수 있는 포토닉스 기반의 테라헤르츠 가변형 연속파 신호원 및 검출기 기술과 이를 기반으로 구현 가능한 응용 기술 동향에 대하여 기술하였다.