Abstract:
A system for varying a delay of an optical beam has a rotatable wheel and a set of one or more prisms mounted about a circumference of the rotatable wheel. The set of one or more prisms are positioned to retroreflect the optical beam that passes approximately tangent to the rotatable wheel to cause a delay or phase shift to the beam as the rotatable wheel rotates.
Abstract:
A semiconductor p-i-n photodiode having a substrate, an n layer coupled to the surface of said substrate, an i layer coupled to the surface of said n layer, and a carbon doped p layer coupled to the surface of said i layer.
Abstract:
A system to detect an article includes one or more terahertz modules. Each module either generates or receives, or both generates and receives, terahertz radiation. Some of the terahertz radiation is reflected from the article and the remainder of the terahertz radiation is transmitted through the article. A processor analyzes the reflected and transmitted terahertz radiation to characterize the article.
Abstract:
A system for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic radiation includes a beam splitter and a transceiver. The beam splitter is configured to separate an optical pulse into a pump pulse and a probe pulse. The transceiver may include a transmitter switch and a receiver switch. The pump pulse is directed toward the transmitter switch and the probe pulse is directed towards the receiver switch. Electromagnetic radiation is emitted from the transceiver when the pump pulse strikes the transmitter switch. The electromagnetic radiation may be terahertz radiation in either a pulsed or continuous wave form.
Abstract:
A system for dispersion compensation in a terahertz system includes an optical fiber configured to transmit an optical pulse, a compensator optically coupled to the optical fiber, the compensator configured to compensate for a dispersion of the optical pulse caused as the optical pulse propagates through the optical fiber, and an optically induced terahertz device optically coupled to the compensator, whereby the optically induced terahertz device is configured to transmit or receive terahertz radiation.