Two-path plasmonic interferometer with integrated detector

Dyer, Gregory Conrad; Shaner, Eric A.; Aizin, Gregory

Two-path plasmonic interferometer with integrated detector

Patent · Tue Mar 29 04:00:00 EDT 2016

OSTI ID:1244238

Dyer, Gregory Conrad; Shaner, Eric A.; Aizin, Gregory

An electrically tunable terahertz two-path plasmonic interferometer with an integrated detection element can down convert a terahertz field to a rectified DC signal. The integrated detector utilizes a resonant plasmonic homodyne mixing mechanism that measures the component of the plasma waves in-phase with an excitation field that functions as the local oscillator in the mixer. The plasmonic interferometer comprises two independently tuned electrical paths. The plasmonic interferometer enables a spectrometer-on-a-chip where the tuning of electrical path length plays an analogous role to that of physical path length in macroscopic Fourier transform interferometers.

Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Assignee:: Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM) Research Foundation of The City of New York (New York, NY)

Patent Number(s):: 9,297,638

Application Number:: 14/520,057

OSTI ID:: 1244238

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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