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Quantum sensing is highly attractive for accessing spectral regions in which the detection of photons is technically challenging: sample information is gained in the spectral region of interest and transferred via entanglement into another…

Inspired by the capability of structured illumination microscopy in subwavelength imaging, many researchers devoted themselves to investigating this methodology. However, due to the free propagating feature of the traditional structured…

Terahertz (THz) imaging provides cutting edge technique in biology, medical sciences and non-destructive evaluation. However, due to the long wavelength of the THz wave, the obtained resolution of THz imaging is normally a few hundred…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-22 Jiayu Zhao , Wei Chu , Lanjun Guo , Zhi Wang , Ya Cheng , Weiwei Liu , Zhizhan Xu

Nonlinear terahertz (THz) spectroscopy relies on the interaction of matter with few-cycle THz pulses of electric field amplitudes up to megavolts/centimeter (MV/cm). In condensed-phase molecular systems, both resonant interactions with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Klaus Reimann , Michael Woerner , Thomas Elsaesser

Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy holds transformative potential for non-invasive sensing, yet characterizing individual nanoparticles in complex biological environments remains challenging due to the far-field diffraction limit. While…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Ricardo Martin Abraham-Ekeroth , Dani Torrent

Terahertz (THz) imaging has recently attracted significant attention thanks to its non-invasive, non-destructive, non-ionizing, material-classification, and ultra-fast nature for object exploration and inspection. However, its strong water…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Weng-tai Su , Yi-Chun Hung , Ta-Hsuan Chao , Po-Jen Yu , Shang-Hua Yang , Chia-Wen Lin

Traditional imaging systems, such as the eye or cameras, image scenes that lie in the direct line-of-sight (LoS). Most objects are opaque in the optical and infrared regimes and can limit dramatically the field of view (FoV). Current…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-11 Yiran Cui , Georgios C. Trichopoulos

Terahertz (THz) technology is a cutting-edge scheme with various promising applications, such as next generation telecommunication, non-destructive evaluation, security check, and in-depth characterization, owing to their sensitivity to…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-05 Kun Liu , Jian Zhou

The increasing need of restoring high-resolution Hyper-Spectral (HS) images is determining a growing reliance on Computer Vision-based processing to enhance the clarity of the image content. HS images can, in fact, suffer from degradation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Marina Ljubenovic , Alessia Artesani , Stefano Bonetti , Arianna Traviglia

X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) plays an important role for elemental analysis in a wide range of scientific fields, especially in cultural heritage. XRF imaging, which uses a raster scan to acquire spectra across artworks, provides…

Coherent continuous wave (CW) terahertz spectroscopy is an extremely valuable technique that allows for the interrogation of systems that exhibit narrow resonances in the terahertz (THz) frequency range, such as high-quality (high-Q) THz…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-01 Dominik Walter Vogt , Miro Erkintalo , Rainer Leonhardt

Invisibility cloaking not only catches the human imagination, but also promises fascinating applications in optics and photonics. By manipulating electromagnetic waves with metamaterials, researchers have been able to realize…

Finding hidden layers in complex networks is an important and a non-trivial problem in modern science. We explore the framework of quantum graphs to determine whether concealed parts of a multi-layer system exist and if so then what is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-10-04 Łukasz G. Gajewski , Julian Sienkiewicz , Janusz A. Hołyst

Continuous Wave (CW) Terahertz spectroscopy enabled by photomixing is a promising high precision spectroscopic tool for the examination of a wide variety of samples including biological, chemical, and solid state. However, often it would be…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-06 James Seddon , Chris Graham , Marie Georgiades , Cyril Renaud , Alwyn Seeds

Terahertz (THz) near-field imaging is a flourishing discipline [1], with applications from fundamental studies of beam propagation [2,3] to the characterisation of metameterials [4,5] and waveguides [6,7]. Beating the diffraction limit…

Old master drawings were mostly created step by step in several layers using different materials. To art historians and restorers, examination of these layers brings various insights into the artistic work process and helps to answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 AmirAbbas Davari , Nikolaos Sakaltras , Armin Haeberle , Sulaiman Vesal , Vincent Christlein , Andreas Maier , Christian Riess

The invisibility cloak has been a long-standing dream for many researchers over the decades. The introduction of transformational optics has revitalized this field by providing a general method to design material distributions to hide the…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-03 Fan Zhou , Yongjun Bao , Wei Cao , Colin T. Stuart , Jianqiang Gu , Weili Zhang , Cheng Sun

We investigate the spatially and temporally resolved four-wave mixing of terahertz fields and optical pulses in large band-gap dielectrics, such as diamond. We show that it is possible to perform beam profiling and space-time resolved…

Terahertz waves hold immense potential across diverse fields, including healthcare monitoring, biomedical imaging, precision navigation, high-speed communication, security screening, industrial quality control, and space exploration.…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-13 Yifan Zhao , Shahed-E- Zumrat , Szu-An Tsao , Mona Jarrahi

The design is suggested, and possible operation parameters are discussed, of an instrument to inspect a skin cancer tumour in the terahertz (THz) range, transferring the image into the infrared (IR) and making it visible with the help of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 A. V. Postnikov , K. A. Moldosanov , N. J. Kairyev , V. M. Lelevkin