The invention discloses a device and method for optimizing the output performance of a
photoconductive switch based on vortex light. The device comprises a
laser, and a filter, a focusing lens, a spiral
phase plate and the
photoconductive switch are sequentially arranged in the
light beam propagation direction of the
laser. The output end of the
laser is coaxially aligned with the light-in surface of the spiral
phase plate, and the light-out surface of the spiral
phase plate is coaxially aligned with the gap area of the
photoconductive switch. The method comprises the following steps: adjusting the height and horizontal position of each component to ensure that a
light source is coaxial and a
light beam sequentially passes through a laser window, a focusing lens and a photoconductive switch gap center at the center of a spiral phase plate; the laser is started to output
Gaussian laser, the
Gaussian laser is converted into vortex light through the spiral phase plate, the vortex light enters a
semiconductor substrate area corresponding to an
electrode gap of the photoconductive switch,
photon-generated carriers are excited to be generated in the substrate, the photoconductive switch is converted into a conduction state from a
dark state and a high-resistance state, and
voltage is output. The problem that the output amplitude of the photoconductive switch is slightly improved by
Gaussian light in the prior art is solved.