Development of continuous-wave 1550 nm operated terahertz system

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Anuar Fernandez Olvera received the B.S. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from Tecnologico de Monterrey, in 2010. He then received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from TU Eindhoven in 2015. After that, he started his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at TU Darmstadt, in 2016, where he joined the Terahertz Systems Technology Group in the framework of the EU H2020 Project CELTA (Convergence of Electronics and Photonics Technologies for Enabling Terahertz Applications). As part of the CELTA project, he has conducted research stays at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and at Toptica Photonics AG.

His main research topic is the development of broadband THz sources and detectors based on photomxing for different applications (a photonic vector analyzer, THz communication systems and non-destructive testing). His research interests also include new photoconductive materials for photomixing, micromachining techniques for THz waveguides, and electromagnetic simulations of THz antennas.

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Hong Lu received the B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, and the Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA, in 2007, where she focused on inter-subband transitions of wide-bandgap II-VI semiconductors grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). After working as a project scientist at the Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA for 8 years, Hong joined Nanjing University and she is currently a Professor with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Nanjing University.

She has co-authored more than 100 papers in refereed journals. Her current research interests include using and developing MBE growth techniques for synthesis of novel materials and material structures, and characterization and processing for fundamental understanding and device applications, especially hetero-structures formed by semiconductors, metals and semimetals, and their applications in optoelectronics, thermal management and terahertz-based technology.

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Arthur C. Gossard received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in physics from University of California, Berkeley.  In his Ph.D. research at Berkeley, he observed the first nuclear magnetic resonance in a ferromagnetic material and discovered the enhancement of rf magnetic field at the nucleus caused by domain rotation and domain wall motion. He is professor of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara.

His research involves the creation and study of nanoscale artificially structured materials.  His special interests are molecular beam epitaxy, the growth of quantum wells, nanostructures and superlattices and their applications to high performance electrical and optical devices and the physics of low-dimensional structures.  In work at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he created the first alternate monolayer superlattices, the first selectively doped high-mobility heterostructures, and was the co-discoverer of the Nobel prize-winning fractional quantum Hall effect.  He was also co-discoverer of the quantum-confined Stark effect and optical modulator.  At UCSB, he pioneered the growth of epitaxial composites of metallic erbium arsenide and related rare-earth compound nanoparticles in semiconductor hosts.  He developed improved thermoelectric materials for direct creation of electrical power from waste heat.  And he produced semiconductor devices with increased electron-hole tunneling for creation of multicolor solar cells.

His work most recently produced high performance quantum dot lasers grown epitaxially on on-axis silicon substrates.  This work has the potential to replace wires in computer chips with light beams.  He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a recipient of the 1983 Oliver Buckley Condensed Matter Physics prize and recipient of the 2001 James McGroddy New Materials prize of the American Physical Society and the 2009 Al Cho International Molecular Beam Epitaxy Award.  In 2017, he was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

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Sascha Preu received the Diploma degree (2005) and the Ph.D. degree in physics (summa cum laude) from the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, in 2009. From 2004-2010 he was working at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany, on THz photomixer technology. 2010-2011 he was with the Materials and Physics Department, University of Santa Barbara, California within the framework of a Feodor Lynen Stipend of the Humboldt Foundation where he worked on field effect transistor rectifiers and rare-earth:III-V materials. From 2011-2014 he was at the Chair of Applied Physics, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, continuing research on field effect transistors, ErAs:In(Al)GaAs photoconductors and graphene-based THz devices. Currently, he is Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, leading the Terahertz Systems Technology group. He authored and coauthored more than 70 journal articles or conference contributions.

His research interests focus on the development of semiconductor-based THz sources and detectors, including photomixers, photoconductors and field effect transistor rectifiers as well as high performance systems constructed thereof. He also works on applications of THz radiation, in particular characterization of novel THz components and materials, including graphene, and THz spectroscopy.