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View SchemaAn All-Cryogenic THz Transmission Spectrometer
| Authors | P. J. Burke, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0107057 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0107057 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.1426231 |
Abstract
This paper describes a THz transmission spectrometer for the spectral range of 2-65 cm^-1 (100 GHz to 2 THz) with a spectral resolution of at least 1.8 cm^-1 (50 GHz) where the source, sample, and detector are all fully contained in a cryogenic environment. Cyclotron emission from a two-dimensional electron gas heated with an electrical current serves as a magnetic field tunable source. The spectrometer is demonstrated at 4.2 K by measuring the resonant cyclotron absorption of a second two dimensional electron gas. Unique aspects of the spectrometer are that 1) an ultra-broadband detector is used and 2) the emitter is run quasi-continuously with a chopping frequency of only 1 Hz. Since optical coupling to room temperature components is not necessary, this technique is compatible with ultra-low temperature (sub 100 mK) operation.
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