Title

Cavity mode waves during terahertz radiation from rectangular Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta mesas

Authors

Authors

R. A. Klemm; E. R. LaBerge; D. R. Morley; T. Kashiwagi; M. Tsujimoto;K. Kadowaki

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Phys.-Condes. Matter

Keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC-WAVES; JOSEPHSON-JUNCTIONS; Physics, Condensed Matter

Abstract

We re-examined the angular dependence of the radiation from the intrinsic Josephson junctions in rectangular mesas of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta, in order to determine if the cavity mode part of the radiation arises from waves across the width w or along the length l of the mesas, associated with 'hot spots' (Wang et al 2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 057002). We derived analytical forms for the angular dependence expected in both cases for a general cavity mode in which the width of the mesa corresponds to an integer multiple of one-half the wavelength of the radiation. Assuming the coherent radiation from the ac Josephson current source and the cavity magnetic surface current density source combine incoherently, fits to the data of Kadowaki et al (2010 J. Phys. Soc. Japan 79 023703) on a mesa with mean l/w = 5.17 for both wave directions using two models for the incoherent combination were made, which correspond to standing and traveling waves, respectively. The results suggest that the combined output from the uniform ac Josephson current source plus a cavity wave forming along the rectangle length is equally probable as that of the combined output from the uniform ac Josephson current plus a cavity wave across the width. However, for mesas in which nl/2w is integral, where n is the index of the rectangular TMn,0z mode, it is shown that standing cavity mode waves along the length of the mesa do not radiate in the xz plane perpendicular to the length of the mesa, suggesting experiments on such mesas could help to resolve the question.

Journal Title

Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter

Volume

23

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

11

WOS Identifier

WOS:000286004500008

ISSN

0953-8984

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