We show that a moving Josephson vortex in spatially modulated layered
superconductors generates out-of-plane THz radiation. Remarkably, the magnetic
and in-plane electric fields radiated are of the same order, which is very
unusual for any good-conducting medium. Therefore, the out-of-plane radiation
can be emitted to the vacuum without the standard impedance mismatch problem.
Thus, the proposed design can be more efficient for tunable THz emitters than
previous proposals, for radiation only propagating along the ab-plane.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure. Phys. Rev. B (2005), in pres