Field Intensity Detection of Individual Terahertz Pulses at 80 MHz Repetition Rate

We present a new approach to detect the intensity of individual terahertz pulses at repetition rates as high as 80 MHz. Our setup comprises a femtosecond fiber laser, an InGaAs-based terahertz emitter, a zero-bias Schottky detector, and a high-speed data acquisition unit. The detected pulses consist of two lobes with half-widths of 1–2 ns, which is much shorter than the inverse repetition rate of the laser. The system lends itself for high-speed terahertz transmission measurements, e.g., to study wetting dynamics in real time.

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