Giant tunable Faraday effect in a semiconductor magneto-plasma for broadband terahertz polarization optics

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2012
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We report on a giant Faraday effect in an electron plasma in n- InSb probed via polarization-resolved terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy. Polarization rotation angles and ellipticities reach as large as π/2 and 1, respectively, over a wide frequency range (0.3-2.5 THz) at magnetic fields of a few Tesla. The experimental results together with theoretical simulations show its promising ability to construct broadband and tunable THz polarization optics, such as a circular polarizer, half-wave plate, and polarization modulators.

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Arikawa, Takashi, Wang, Xiangfeng, Belyanin, Alexey A., et al.. "Giant tunable Faraday effect in a semiconductor magneto-plasma for broadband terahertz polarization optics." Optics Express, 20, no. 17 (2012) Optical Society of America: 19484-19492. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.019484.

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