Superconducting emitters of THz radiation

U Welp, K Kadowaki, R Kleiner - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Layered superconductors such as the copper-oxide high-temperature superconductor
Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+ δ are emerging as compact sources of coherent continuous-wave …

Terahertz-wave emission from Bi2212 intrinsic Josephson junctions: A review on recent progress

I Kakeya, H Wang - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Emission of terahertz (THz) electromagnetic (EM) waves from a high critical temperature (T
c) superconductor intrinsic Josephson junction (IJJ) is a new and promising candidate for …

A high-Tc intrinsic Josephson junction emitter tunable from 0.5 to 2.4 terahertz

T Kashiwagi, K Sakamoto, H Kubo, Y Shibano… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Strong, monochromatic, coherent and continuous terahertz (THz) radiation was generated
from the intrinsic Josephson junctions in a cylindrical stand-alone mesa sandwich structure …

Terahertz emission and detection both based on high-Tc superconductors: Towards an integrated receiver

DY An, J Yuan, N Kinev, MY Li, Y Huang, M Ji… - Applied physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We have combined a stand-alone Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 intrinsic Josephson junction stack,
emitting terahertz radiation, with a YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 grain boundary Josephson junction …

Generation of electromagnetic waves from 0.3 to 1.6 terahertz with a high-Tc superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+ δ intrinsic Josephson junction emitter

T Kashiwagi, T Yamamoto, T Kitamura… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
To obtain higher power P and frequency f emissions from the intrinsic Josephson junctions
in a high-T c superconducting Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+ δ single crystal, we embedded a …

Efficient fabrication of intrinsic-Josephson-junction terahertz oscillators with greatly reduced self-heating effects

T Kashiwagi, T Yamamoto, H Minami, M Tsujimoto… - Physical review applied, 2015 - APS
The intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs) in the high-T c superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O
8+ δ (Bi2212) are shown to have great potential for the construction of an oscillator emitting …

Continuous 30 μW terahertz source by a high-Tc superconductor mesa structure

S Sekimoto, C Watanabe, H Minami… - Applied physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Using a modified mesa structure of high-T c superconducting Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+ δ with a
thin underlaying base superconductor (∼ 3 μm), the effective working temperature of the …

Local SiC photoluminescence evidence of hot spot formation and sub-THz coherent emission from a rectangular mesa

H Minami, C Watanabe, K Sato, S Sekimoto… - Physical review B, 2014 - APS
From the photoluminescence of SiC microcrystals uniformly covering a rectangular mesa of
the high transition temperature T c superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+ δ, the local …

The present status of high-Tc superconducting terahertz emitters

T Kashiwagi, H Kubo, K Sakamoto… - Superconductor …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A terahertz (THz) wave emitter using the stack of intrinsic Josephson junctions present in the
high-T c superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+ δ (Bi2212) has been developed. By applying …

Computed tomography image using sub-terahertz waves generated from a high-Tc superconducting intrinsic Josephson junction oscillator

T Kashiwagi, K Nakade, Y Saiwai, H Minami… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A computed tomography (CT) imaging system using monochromatic sub-terahertz coherent
electromagnetic waves generated from a device constructed from the intrinsic Josephson …