Terahertz source-on-a-chip with decade-long stability using layered superconductor elliptical microcavities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22811v1
• Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 08:26:13 GMT
• Title: Terahertz source-on-a-chip with decade-long stability using layered superconductor elliptical microcavities
• Authors: Mingqi Zhang, Shungo Nakagawa, Yuki Enomoto, Yoshihiko Kuzumi, Ryuta Kikuchi, Yuki Yamauchi, Toshiaki Hattori, Richard A. Klemm, Kazuo Kadowaki, Takanari Kashiwagi, Kaveh Delfanazari,
• Abstract summary: Coherent, continuous-wave, and electrically tunable chip-scale terahertz (THz) sources are critical for emerging applications in sensing, imaging, spectroscopy, communication, space and quantum technologies.<n>Here, we demonstrate a robust source-on-a-chip THz emitter based on a layered high-temperature superconductor, engineered with an elliptical microcavity and capable of sustained coherent emission over an unprecedented operational lifetime exceeding 11 years.
• Score: 0.1818402769023554
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Coherent, continuous-wave, and electrically tunable chip-scale terahertz (THz) sources are critical for emerging applications in sensing, imaging, spectroscopy, communication, space and quantum technologies. Here, we demonstrate a robust source-on-a-chip THz emitter based on a layered high-temperature superconductor, engineered with an elliptical microcavity and capable of sustained coherent emission over an unprecedented operational lifetime exceeding 11 years. This compact THz source operates up to 60 K, with Tc= 90 K, delivering stable radiation in the 0.7-0.8 THz range, with on-chip electrical tunability from 100 GHz to 1 THz. Coherence arises from the phase-locked oscillation of intrinsic Josephson junction arrays, resonantly coupled to transverse electromagnetic modes within the cavity, analogous to a laser cavity, yielding collective macroscopic oscillations. THz emission remains detectable across a 0.5 m free-space open-air link at room temperature. We analyse the cavity-mode structure and extract THz photon generation rates up to 503 photons fs-1 in cryogenic conditions and 50-260 photons ps-1 over-the-air. These results establish long-term coherent THz emission from superconductors and chart a viable path toward scalable, tunable, solid-state coherent THz laser-on-a-chip platforms, especially for future classical and quantum systems.

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