Driving Spintronic Terahertz Emitters at GHz Repetition Rates

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Spintronic terahertz emitters (STEs) are versatile sources of terahertz (THz) frequency radiation that offer high electric field strengths and gap-free bandwidths covering the THz (0.1-30 THz) band. In addition, they are low-cost to produce and easy to use in a variety of optical setups. However, an obstacle to their wider applicability is the recently reported decrease in optical fluence damage threshold when driven with high-repetition-rate lasers. Here, we use an asynchronous optical sampling (ASOPS) THz time-domain spectrometer (THz-TDS) to observe the degradation of the THz signal in real-time when driven by a 1 GHz repetition-rate laser. We demonstrate that the loss of THz emission is permanent and is likely the result of thermal damage to the STE structure. However, by utilizing substrates with high thermal conductivities, an increase of the damage threshold of over three orders of magnitude is observed enabling stable emission from a STE for the first time when driven by a high-repetition-rate laser.

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@misc{gething2026driving,
  title = {{Driving Spintronic Terahertz Emitters at GHz Repetition Rates}},
  author = {Thomas A. Gething and Henry De Libero and Morgan T. Hibberd and Thomas Thomson and Paul W. Nutter and Darren M. Graham},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.39493},
  eprint = {2609.39493},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39493},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Driving Spintronic Terahertz Emitters at GHz Repetition Rates
AU  - Thomas A. Gething
AU  - Henry De Libero
AU  - Morgan T. Hibberd
AU  - Thomas Thomson
AU  - Paul W. Nutter
AU  - Darren M. Graham
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/30
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.39493
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39493
AB  - Spintronic terahertz emitters (STEs) are versatile sources of terahertz (THz) frequency radiation that offer high electric field strengths and gap-free bandwidths covering the THz (0.1-30 THz) band. In addition, they are low-cost to produce and easy to use in a variety of optical setups. However, an obstacle to their wider applicability is the recently reported decrease in optical fluence damage threshold when driven with high-repetition-rate lasers. Here, we use an asynchronous optical sampling (ASOPS) THz time-domain spectrometer (THz-TDS) to observe the degradation of the THz signal in real-time when driven by a 1 GHz repetition-rate laser. We demonstrate that the loss of THz emission is permanent and is likely the result of thermal damage to the STE structure. However, by utilizing substrates with high thermal conductivities, an increase of the damage threshold of over three orders of magnitude is observed enabling stable emission from a STE for the first time when driven by a high-repetition-rate laser.
ER  -

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