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Engineers shrink powerful terahertz systems onto a single semiconductor chip

Engineers shrink powerful terahertz systems onto a single semiconductor chip
A chip-scale terahertz source leveraging gain-enhanced interband photomixing for high-efficiency terahertz signal generation. Credit: Terahertz Electronics Lab/UCLA

High-frequency waves classified as terahertz occupy a relatively underused region of the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared light and microwaves. Researchers have long recognized their unique potential for applications including ultrafast wireless communication, security screening, remote sensing and medical imaging.

As technologies push toward higher operating frequencies and data rates, photonics-based terahertz systems, which use light at high speed to generate and process terahertz signals, have emerged as a promising alternative to conventional electronic technologies because of their superior bandwidth and p...

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