Handbook of Terahertz Technology for Imaging, Sensing and Communications

Preface

The last two decades have witnessed an impressive and unprecedented advance in the field of terahertz science and technology. Bulky and expensive terahertz laboratory instruments, traditionally used for radio astronomy and plasma diagnostics applications, have evolved into commercially available turn-key systems available to scientists and technologists to revisit their scientific problems in the light of terahertz waves. Terahertz sensing and imaging systems are now commercially available, and terahertz wireless communication is on the foreseeable horizon. We celebrate the emergence of a new era: the Tera Era.

Compact terahertz sources and detectors have been developed to generate, detect, and manipulate coherent terahertz signals. ...