Cavity-enhanced optical Hall effect in two-dimensional free charge carrier gases detected at terahertz frequencies

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that a tunable Fabry-Pérot cavity can resonantly enhance optical Hall effect signals in two-dimensional electron gases at terahertz frequencies, enabling detection with moderate magnetic fields.

Contribution

It introduces a method to amplify optical Hall effect signatures using an externally coupled cavity, expanding experimental capabilities in terahertz frequency regimes.

Findings

Enhanced optical Hall effect signals with cavity tuning.

Detection at moderate magnetic fields using permanent magnets.

Control of signatures via cavity reflectance and frequency.

Abstract

The effect of a tunable, externally coupled Fabry-P\'{e}rot cavity to resonantly enhance the optical Hall effect signatures at terahertz frequencies produced by a traditional Drude-like two-dimensional electron gas is shown and discussed in this communication. As a result, the detection of optical Hall effect signatures at conveniently obtainable magnetic fields, for example by neodymium permanent magnets, is demonstrated. An AlInN/GaN-based high electron mobility transistor structure grown on a sapphire substrate is used for the experiment. The optical Hall effect signatures and their dispersions, which are governed by the frequency and the reflectance minima and maxima of the externally coupled Fabry-P\'{e}rot cavity, are presented and discussed. Tuning the externally coupled Fabry-P\'{e}rot cavity strongly modifies the optical Hall effect signatures, which provides a new degree of freedom for optical Hall effect experiments in addition to frequency, angle of incidence and magnetic field direction and strength.