Resonant phase jump with enhanced electric field caused by surface phonon polariton in terahertz region.
We investigated surface phonon polariton in cesium iodide with terahertz time-domain attenuated total reflection method in Otto configuration, which gives us both information on amplitude and phase of surface electromagnetic mode directly. Systematic experiments with precise control of the distance between a prism and an active material show that the abrupt change of pi-phase jump appears sensitively under polariton picture satisfied when the local electric field at the interface becomes a maximum. This demonstration will open the novel phase-detection terahertz sensor using the active medium causing the strong enhancement of terahertz electric field.
Pioneering Research Unit for Next Generation, Kyoto University, Kyoto 6158245, Japan. t.okada@kupru.iae.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Takanori
T
Okada
Masaya
M
Nagai
Koichiro
K
Tanaka
D002586:Cesium / Q000737:chemistry*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D007259:Infrared Rays; D007454:Iodides / Q000737:chemistry*; D008027:Light; D008872:Microwaves; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017785:Photons; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000379:methods*
D007454:Iodides; D002586:Cesium; C040050:cesium iodide