Sensing with Terahertz Radiation
By: edited by Daniel Mittleman
Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences -- 85; Springer series in optical sciences -- 85.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9783642077173; 9783540456018
Subjects: Physics
Description: Sensing with Terahertz Radiation reviews the state of the art in the generation, manipulation, and detection of electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz range. Recent years have seen a tremendous growth in research and development efforts in this spectral regime, spanning roughly from 0.3 THz to 10 THz. This has been spurred in part by several startling advances, involving non-linear optical materials, ultrafast optical and electronic techniques, and spectroscopic methods. As a result, there have been qualitative and significant improvements in the generation and detection of THz radiation. These have enabled a number of "real world" applications of THz technologies, in a manner which would not have been practical only a few years ago. A number of demonstrations and feasibility tests are discussed, which serve as compelling evidence of the utility of such techniques. Owing to the unique characteristics of THz radiation and its interactions with materials, these methods can have substantial advantages over other more conventional technologies. This text includes contributions on topics including time-domain spectroscopy based on both photoconductive and electro-optic sampling, photomixing, and all-electronic THz generation. advantages over other, competing technologies in a number of different areas.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction (Grischkowsky/Mittleman); title: Spectroscopy in the Terahertz Spectral Region (De Lucia); title: Terahertz Imaging (Mittleman); title: Free Space Electro-Optic Techniques (Jiang/Zhang); title: Photomixers for Continuous-Wave Terahertz Radiation (Duffy/Verghese/Mc Intosh); title: Applications of Optically Generated Terahertz Pulses to Time Domain Ranging and Scattering (Cheville/Reiten/McGowan/Grischkowsky); title: Bio-medical Applications of Terahertz Imaging (Koch); title: Electronic Sources and Detectors for Wideband Sensing in the Terahertz Regime (Van der Weide).