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Programmatic perspectives with technical examples for THz materials characterization
Paper Abstract
THz technology has a rich history of use in the field of interstellar molecule identification where a variety of molecule
specific vibrational and rotational spectroscopic signatures exist and has been aggressively investigated for use in
advanced radar applications because of the immediate improvement in object resolution obtained at higher frequencies.
Traditionally, high power THz systems have relied upon millimeter wave sources and frequency multiplication
techniques to achieve acceptable output power levels, while lower power, table top spectroscopic systems, have relied on
broadband incoherent light sources. With the advent of high power lasers, advances in non-linear optics, and new
material systems, a number of promising techniques for the generation, detection and manipulation of THz radiation are
currently under development and are considered the enabling technologies behind a variety of advanced THz
applications.
This work presents a programmatic overview of current trends in THz technology of interest to a variety of government
organizations. It focuses on those techniques currently under investigation for the generation and detection of THz fields
motivated, for example, by such diverse applications as metamaterial spectroscopy, TH imaging, long standoff chem/bio
detection and THz communications. Examples of these new techniques will be presented which in turn will motivate the
need for the characterization of application specific active and passive THz components.
Paper Details
Date Published: 13 May 2011
PDF: 17 pages
Proc. SPIE 8031, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications III, 80310F (13 May 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.884599
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8031:
Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications III
Thomas George; M. Saif Islam; Achyut K. Dutta, Editor(s)
PDF: 17 pages
Proc. SPIE 8031, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications III, 80310F (13 May 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.884599
Show Author Affiliations
Walter Buchwald, Air Force Research Lab. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8031:
Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications III
Thomas George; M. Saif Islam; Achyut K. Dutta, Editor(s)
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