Oscillation device and measurement apparatus using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9810808-B2
Application number	US-201615296670-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 18, 2016
Priority date	Oct 20, 2015
Publication date	Nov 7, 2017
Grant date	Nov 7, 2017

Abstract

An oscillation device includes a waveguide structure including a first conductor layer, a second conductor layer, and a semiconductor layer disposed between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer and having a gain of an electromagnetic wave, an antenna unit configured to radiate the electromagnetic wave, a first connecting portion configured to connect the waveguide structure and the antenna unit, and a second connecting portion configured to connect the waveguide structure and the antenna unit. A first connecting position of the first connecting portion and the waveguide structure and a second connecting position of the second connecting portion and the waveguide structure are different from each other in a resonance direction in which the electromagnetic wave that resonates the waveguide structure resonates.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An oscillation device comprising:
a waveguide structure including a first conductor layer, a second conductor layer, and a semiconductor layer disposed between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer and having a gain of an electromagnetic wave;
an antenna unit configured to radiate the electromagnetic wave;
a first connecting portion configured to connect the waveguide structure and the antenna unit; and
a second connecting portion configured to connect the waveguide structure and the antenna unit,
wherein a first connecting position of the first connecting portion and the waveguide structure and a second connecting position of the second connecting portion and the waveguide structure are different from each other in a resonance direction in which the electromagnetic wave that resonates the waveguide structure resonates.

2. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein, assuming that an oscillation wavelength of the electromagnetic wave is λ g and that a natural number is n, a distance between the first connecting position and the second connecting position is longer than nλ g −λ g /4 and shorter than nλ g +λ g /4.

3. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein
the first connecting portion is disposed at a position not including a position which becomes a node of an electric field of the electromagnetic wave which resonates in the waveguide structure in the resonance direction on a plane on which the first connecting portion and the second conductor layer are connected, and
the second connecting portion is disposed at a position not including a position which becomes a node of the electric field of the electromagnetic wave on which the second connecting portion and the second conductor layer are connected.

4. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein the first connecting position is a position which becomes an antinode of the electric field of the electromagnetic wave which resonates in the waveguide structure in the resonance direction.

5. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein, assuming that the oscillation wavelength of the electromagnetic wave is λ g , each of the first connecting position and the second connecting position is located at a position of an odd multiple of λ g /2 from an end surface of the waveguide structure in the resonance direction.

6. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein the second connecting position is a position which becomes an antinode of the electric field of the electromagnetic wave which resonates in the waveguide structure in the resonance direction.

7. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion is a matching circuit for adjusting an impedance of the resonance portion and an impedance of the antenna.

8. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion is a microstrip line which is ¼ in length of an effective wavelength of the electromagnetic wave.

9. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer includes a negative permittivity medium of which real part of dielectric constant is negative.

10. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor layer includes a semiconductor multilayer film of a quantum well structure which generates a terahertz wave by transition of a career between subbands.

11. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein
the antenna unit includes a first antenna and a second antenna,
the first connecting portion connects the waveguide structure and the first antenna, and
the second connecting portion connects the waveguide structure and the second antenna.

12. The oscillation device according to claim 11 , further comprising a third connecting portion configured to connect the waveguide structure and the first antenna.

13. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein the waveguide structure has a linear shape.

14. The oscillation device according to claim 13 , wherein, assuming that the oscillation wavelength of the electromagnetic wave is λ g , a length of the waveguide structure in the resonance direction is an integer multiple of λ g /2.

15. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein the waveguide structure has a half ring shape.

16. The oscillation device according to claim 15 , wherein, assuming that the oscillation wavelength of the electromagnetic wave is λ g , a length of the waveguide structure in the resonance direction is an integer multiple of λ g .

17. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein the waveguide structure has a ring shape.

18. The oscillation device according to claim 17 , wherein, assuming that the oscillation wavelength of the electromagnetic wave is λ g , a length of the waveguide structure in the resonance direction is 2λ g +nλ g (n=0, 1, 2, . . . ).

19. The oscillation device according to claim 1 , wherein a frequency of the electromagnetic wave is equal to or higher than 30 GHz to lower than or equal to 30 THz.

20. A measurement apparatus for measuring an electromagnetic wave from a sample, the apparatus comprising:
an oscillator configured to irradiate the sample with the electromagnetic wave; and
a detector configured to detect the electromagnetic wave which has penetrated through the sample or reflected from the sample,
wherein the oscillator includes the oscillation device according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Tateishi Yoshinori

Classifications

• G01V8/005 Primary

  operating with millimetre waves, e.g. measuring the black losey radiation · CPC title

• H01S1/02

  solid · CPC title

• H01S5/026 Primary

  Monolithically integrated components, e.g. waveguides, monitoring photo-detectors, drivers (stabilisation of output H01S5/06) · CPC title

• H01S5/3402

  intersubband lasers, e.g. transitions within the conduction or valence bands · CPC title

• H01S5/1046

  Comprising interactions between photons and plasmons, e.g. by a corrugated surface · CPC title