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Metamaterials based on effective media have achieved a lot of unusual physics (e.g. negative refraction and invisibility cloaking) owing to their abilities to tailor the effective medium parameters that do not exist in nature. Recently,…

High performance Terahertz (THz) photodetector has drawn wide attention and got great improvement due to its significant application in biomedical, astrophysics, nondestructive inspection, 6th generation communication system as well as…

Coating thickness measurement and inspection of defects beneath optically opaque surfaces are among the most promising commercial applications of the terahertz (THz) imaging technology. However, there are two main sources of complexity in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Arash Karimi , Zachery B. Harris , Erica Heller , Paul Vahey , M. Hassan Arbab

The emergence of metamaterial has provided an unprecedented ability to manipulate electromagnetic waves, especially in the terahertz band where there is a lack of natural response materials. However, most metamaterials are fixed single…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-12 Bo Yu , Lesiqi Yin , Peng Wang , Cheng Gong

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a modulation technique susceptible to source, channel and amplifier nonlinearities because of its high peak-to-average ratio (PAPR). The distortion gets worse by increasing the average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Mohammad Noshad , Maite Brandt-Pearce

We demonstrate a new method to detect ferroelectric domains in inside and surface regions of organic ferroelectrics by mapping out two orthogonally polarized terahertz waves radiated from the crystal upon the irradiation of near-infrared…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-10 M. Sotome , N. Kida , S. Horiuchi , H. Okamoto

THz radiation is more and more commonplace in research laboratories as well as in everyday life, with applications ranging from body scanners at airport security to short range wireless communications. In the optical domain, waveguides and…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-07 Alessio Stefani , Simon C. Fleming , Boris T. Kuhlmey

This tutorial aims to provide details on the underlying principles and methodologies of atom-based terahertz imaging techniques. Terahertz imaging is a growing field of research which can provide complementary information to techniques…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Lucy Downes , Lara Torralbo-Campo , Kevin Weatherill

Imaging systems operating in the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum are in great demand because of the distinct characteristics of terahertz waves in penetrating many optically-opaque materials and providing unique spectral…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-09 Xurong Li , Deniz Mengu , Aydogan Ozcan , Mona Jarrahi

A proof of concept for high speed near-field imaging with sub-wavelength resolution using SLM is presented. An 8 channel THz detector array antenna with an electrode gap of 100 um and length of 5 mm is fabricated using the commercially…

We report the first coherent excitation of intramolecular vibrational modes via the nonlinear interaction of a TeraHertz (THz) light field with molecular liquids. A terahertz-terahertz-Raman pulse sequence prepares the coherences with a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-12-29 Marco A. Allodi , Ian A. Finneran , Geoffrey A. Blake

Terahertz microscopy has attracted attention owing to distinctive characteristics of the THz frequency region, particularly non-ionizing photon energy, spectral fingerprint, and transparency to most nonpolar materials. Nevertheless, the…

We demonstrate the broadband operation of a switchable terahertz quarter-wave plate achieved with an active metasurface employing vanadium dioxide. For this purpose, we utilize anisotropically deformed checkerboard structures, which present…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-03 Toshihiro Nakanishi , Yosuke Nakata , Yoshiro Urade , Kunio Okimura

We numerically analyse extraordinary terahertz transmission properties of an array of rectangular shaped apertures perforated periodically on a thin metal film. The apertures are tapered at different angles to achieve higher field…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-01 Koijam Monika Devi , Amarendra K. Sarma , Gagan Kumar

It is reported that terahertz radiation from 0.69 THz to 2.54 THz has been sensitively detected in a device consisting of bundles of metallic carbon nanotubes, quasi-optically coupled through a lithographically fabricated antenna, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Fu , R. Zannoni , C. Chan , S. Adams , J. Nicholson , E. Polizzi , S. Yngvesson

We report a simple single-pixel imaging system with a low mean squared error in the entire terahertz frequency region (3-13 THz) that employs a thin metallic ring with a series of directly perforated random masks and a subpixel mask…

We present a metamaterial that acts as a strongly resonant absorber at terahertz frequencies. Our design consists of a bilayer unit cell which allows for maximization of the absorption through independent tuning of the electrical…

We demonstrated an ultra-broadband, polarization-insensitive and wide-angle metamaterial absorber for terahertz (THz) frequencies using arrays of truncated pyramid unit structure made of metal-dielectric multilayer composite. In our design…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-02 Jianfei Zhu , Zhaofeng Ma , Wujiong Sun , Fei Ding , Qiong He , Lei Zhou , Yungui Ma

Phase modulation plays a crucial role in various terahertz applications, including biomedical imaging, high-rate communication, and radar detection. Existing terahertz phase shifters typically rely on tuning the resonant effect of…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-19 Xudong Liu , Daosong Yu , Chuanfu Sun , Zhijie Mei , Hao Chen , Jianbin Xu , Yiwen Sun

Terahertz (THz) waves have been significantly developed in the last fifteen years because of their great potential for applications in industrial and scientific communities1,2. The unique properties of THz waves as transparency for numerous…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Blanchard , A. Doi , T. Tanaka , H. Hirori , H. Tanaka , Y. Kadoya , K. Tanaka