CHEN Long-chao, FAN Wen-hui. Study on High Sensitivity and Low Noise Electro-Optic Terahertz Detector[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2012, 40(9): 1705-1709.
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CHEN Long-chao, FAN Wen-hui. Study on High Sensitivity and Low Noise Electro-Optic Terahertz Detector[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2012, 40(9): 1705-1709. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2012.09.001.
Study on High Sensitivity and Low Noise Electro-Optic Terahertz Detector
An electro-optic terahertz (THz) detector with a newly-designed circuit was investigated.A pair of high-quality PIN photodiodes and a low-noise current-voltage conversion circuit were applied to convert the modulated probe laser to voltage signal.These two voltage signals were subsequently sent to a specially-designed differential amplifier with high common-mode-rejection-rate (CMRR) that largely restrain the noise of terahertz signal and avoid the disturbance of probe laser intensity.Then a band-pass filter was employed to control bandwidth and restrain noise of the detected signal.Finally
the weak THz signal was detected via a main amplifier.Experimental results show that the THz detector has high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR)
teeny distortion and wide bandwidth
which fully satisfy the requirement of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS).