Electro-optic detection of subwavelength terahertz spot sizes in the near field of a metal tip
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- 26 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 81 (9), 1558-1560
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1503404
Abstract
We report on a method to obtain a subwavelength resolution in terahertz time-domain imaging. In our method, a sharp copper tip is used to locally distort and concentrate the THz electric field. The distorted electric field, present mainly in the near field of the tip, is electro-optically measured in an (100) oriented GaP crystal. By raster scanning the tip along the surface of the crystal, we find the smallest THz spot size of 18 μm for frequencies from 0.1 to 2.5 THz. For our peak frequency of 0.15 THz, this corresponds to a resolution of λ/110. Our setup has the potential to reach a resolution down to a few μm.Keywords
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