"Terahertz Photonics - Passive Components, Active Devices and Systems"

我们过去五年的研究项目一直致力于太赫兹技术的发展。这项工作通过几项主要赠款和与工业界的伙伴关系得到了促进，从而产生了大量的专业知识和众多合作。有了这个新的发现基金申请，我们寻求继续在我们之前的活动中确定的几个有前途的新方向进行研究。这项工作主要集中在三个主要领域：太赫兹波导技术、太赫兹源和探测器技术以及太赫兹系统。一个主要目标是开发组件和系统，其中太赫兹波完全限制在波导结构中，而不是像今天系统中典型的那样以自由空间光束辐射。预计这项工作将产生基于太赫兹的工具和仪器，与目前的自由空间太赫兹技术相比，这些工具和仪器将提供更高的动态范围、更长的样品相互作用长度、更低的成本和更广泛的实用性。

Our research program over the past five years has targeted the advancement of terahertz technology. This work has been facilitated through several major grants and partnerships with industry leading to considerable expertise and numerous collaborations. With this new Discovery Grant application, we seek to continue research in several promising new directions that have been identified in our prior activities. This work is centered on three main areas: terahertz waveguide technology, terahertz source and detector technology, and terahertz systems. A major objective is to develop components and systems in which terahertz waves are entirely confined within waveguide structures, rather than radiating as free-space beams as is typically done in today's systems. It is anticipated that this work will result in terahertz-based tools and instruments that will offer higher dynamic range, longer sample interaction lengths, lower cost, and more widespread utility than today's free-space terahertz technology.