Terahertz laser device based on zinc oxide phonon vibration optically excited at room temperature

Abstract

Disclosed is a terahertz laser device based on phonon vibration excitation, including a resonant cavity composed of a hollow waveguide made of a composite film and optical lenses at both ends of the waveguide, where M represents nano-metal particles. A zinc oxide mesomorphic microsphere is used herein as a source, symmetric stretching vibration of nanosheets on the zinc oxide microsphere is excited and induced by a laser and is transmitted through elastic and electric coupling among the nanosheets, and a terahertz wave with a frequency of 0.36 THz is radiated by means of phonon vibration; moreover, the zinc oxide mesomorphic microspheres and the nano-metal particles are mixed evenly to produce a strong local electric field a few nanometers nearby a surface of the metal particle by taking advantage of a surface-enhanced Raman effect of the nano-metal particles, a nanocantilever of the ZnO mesomorphic microsphere is greatly changed in polarizability with ample contact of the nano-metal particles and the ZnO mesomorphic microspheres, and thus the terahertz radiation power thereof is enhanced.

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