Ultrafast terahertz superconductor van der Waals metamaterial photonic switch

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15515v1
• Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 15:37:03 GMT
• Title: Ultrafast terahertz superconductor van der Waals metamaterial photonic switch
• Authors: Kaveh Delfanazari
• Abstract summary: High-temperature superconductor (HTS) BSCCO-based coherent terahertz (THz) sources have shown great potential as one of the leading solid-state platforms in THz science and technology. We report on the design, simulation and modelling of ultrafast THz metamaterial photonic integrated circuits, on a few nanometers thick HTS BSCCO van der Waals (vdWs)
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• Abstract: High-temperature superconductor (HTS) BSCCO-based coherent terahertz (THz) sources have shown great potential as one of the leading solid-state platforms in THz science and technology. Stable, and chip-scale photonic components must be developed to effectively and efficiently control and manipulate their coherent radiation, especially for future communication systems and network applications. Here, we report on the design, simulation and modelling of ultrafast THz metamaterial photonic integrated circuits, on a few nanometers thick HTS BSCCO van der Waals (vdWs), capable of the active modulation of phase with constant transmission coefficient over a narrow frequency range. Meanwhile, the metamaterial circuit works as an amplitude modulator without significantly changing the phase in a different frequency band. Under the application of ultrashort optical pulses, the transient modulation dynamics of the THz metamaterial offer a fast switching timescale of 50 ps. The dynamics of picosecond light-matter interaction_ Cooper pairs breaking, photoinduced quasiparticles generation and recombination, phonon bottleneck effect, emission and relaxation of bosons_ in BSCCO vdWs metamaterial arrays are discussed for the potential application of multifunctional superconducting photonic circuits in communication and quantum technologies.

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