Patent ID: 8658976

Claim:
A Terahertz camera, comprising: an integrated imager chip having a plurality of pixels fabricated therein, said imager chip configured to respond to incoming Terahertz radiation and configured to provide an electronic signal representative of an intensity of said incoming Terahertz radiation at each of said plurality of pixels, each pixel of said plurality of pixels of said integrated imager chip comprising an onchip antenna configured to detect said incoming Terahertz radiation, each pixel of said plurality of pixels of said integrated imager chip comprising a front-end receiver circuit configured to reduce a Terahertz frequency of said incoming Terahertz radiation to a frequency amenable to processing in circuitry on said integrated imager chip; and said integrated imager chip having a plurality of output terminals, each of said plurality of output terminals configured to provide an output signal for a respective one of said plurality of pixels.