Broadband polarization spectrum tuning enabled by the built-in electric field of patterned spintronic terahertz emitters

Qing Yang; Yan Huang; Houyi Cheng; Reza Rouzegar; Renyou Xu; Shijie Xu; Jie Zhang; Fan Zhang; Yong Xu; Lianggong Wen; Weisheng Zhao; Tianxiao Nie

doi:10.1117/1.AP.7.2.026007

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