Terahertz and Far Infrared Pulsed Devices and Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2019) | Viewed by 22089
Special Issue Editors
Interests: THz photomixers; THz photoconductors; field effect transistors; rectifiers; THz systems; THz spectroscopy; new materials for THz applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pulsed THz (100 GHz- 10 THz) and far infrared (FIR up to 30 THz) systems and devices have been, and still are, a major driver of the research field. As an example, a vast majority of broadband materials parameters data, such as of various plastics, semiconductors of various doping levels, liquids and more complex systems were determined by using pulsed systems, paving the way for realization of many components, devices and systems, as well as important applications. This Special Issue aims for providing an overview about latest research and developments of pulsed THz and FIR devices and systems. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
Recent developments of pulsed THz/FIR systems and components
- Sources including (large area) photoconductive antennas, nonlinear crystals, quantum cascade lasers, optical parametric oscillators, free electron lasers, synchrotron radiation and pulsed electronic sources
- System concepts such as asynchronous optical sampling (ASOPS), electronically controlled optical sampling (ECOPS), optical sampling by cavity tuning (OSCAT), air-biased coherent detection (ABCD) and air plasma generation
- New materials and concepts for pulsed THz/FIR emitters and detectors, such as semiconductors modified or doped with functional materials, spintronic emitters, novel nonlinear crystal materials
Novel applications of pulsed THz/FIR systems
- Non-destructive testing including thickness analysis
- Broadband spectroscopy, algorithms for material parameter extraction
- 2D and 3D hyperspectral imaging
- Fundamental research including nonlinear effects in matter, solid state physics, high field experiments
Prof. Dr. Sascha Preu
Prof. Dr. Jan Balzer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Time domain spectroscopy
- THz pulses
- FIR pulses
- High power
- Non-destructive testing
- Quantum cascade lasers
- Free electron lasers
- Synchrotron
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