Guided terahertz technology and systems

我们过去五年的研究计划以太赫兹(THz)技术的进步为目标。通过几笔大笔赠款和与工业界的伙伴关系，这项工作得到了促进，从而产生了大量的专门知识和许多合作。通过这一新的发现赠款申请，我们寻求在几个有希望的新方向创造新技术，这些新方向已经在我们之前的活动中确定。这项工作以太赫兹导波技术和系统为中心，包括三个主要领域：太赫兹源和探测器、太赫兹波导技术和太赫兹系统集成。一个主要的目标是开发组件和系统，其中太赫兹波完全被限制在波导结构中，而不是像今天的系统中通常所做的那样像自由空间波束那样辐射。预计这项工作将产生基于太赫兹的工具和仪器，它们将提供比今天的自由空间太赫兹技术更高的动态范围、更低的成本和更广泛的实用。

Our research program over the past five years has targeted the advancement of terahertz (THz) 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 create new technology in several promising new directions that have been identified in our prior activities. This work is centered on Guided Terahertz Technology and Systems and comprises three main areas: THz sources and detectors, THz waveguide technology and THz system integration. A major objective is to develop components and systems in which THz 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, lower cost, and more widespread utility than today’s free-space terahertz technology.