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Opt Express. 2015 Nov 02;23(22):28728-35. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.028728.

Universal ultrafast detector for short optical pulses based on graphene.

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Martin Mittendorff, Josef Kamann, Jonathan Eroms, Dieter Weiss, Christoph Drexler, Sergey D Ganichev, Jochen Kerbusch, Artur Erbe, Ryan J Suess, Thomas E Murphy, Sangam Chatterjee, Kolja Kolata, Joachim Ohser, Jacob C König-Otto, Harald Schneider, Manfred Helm, Stephan Winnerl

PMID: 26561141 DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.028728

Abstract

Graphene has unique optical and electronic properties that make it attractive as an active material for broadband ultrafast detection. We present here a graphene-based detector that shows 40-picosecond electrical rise time over a spectral range that spans nearly three orders of magnitude, from the visible to the far-infrared. The detector employs a large area graphene active region with interdigitated electrodes that are connected to a log-periodic antenna to improve the long-wavelength collection efficiency, and a silicon carbide substrate that is transparent throughout the visible regime. The detector exhibits a noise-equivalent power of approximately 100 µW·Hz(-½) and is characterized at wavelengths from 780 nm to 500 µm.

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