Real-time measurement of picosecond THz pulses by an ultra-fast YBa2Cu3O7−d detection system

The temporal evolution of picosecond THz pulses generated at ANKA, the electron storage ring of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has been measured in real-time using an ultra-fast YBa2Cu3O7−δ detection system. YBa2Cu3O7−δ thin-film detectors with 30 nm thickness were patterned to microbridges (2 μm long, 4.5 μm wide) and embedded into a planar log-spiral THz antenna. The detectors were glued on a silicon lens and installed in an ultra-fast readout system with a temporal resolution of 15 ps (full width at half maximum). Detector responses as short as 17 ps were recorded showing very good agreement with the expected storage ring bunch lengths.

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