News: THz measurement techniques

The First Annual Meeting on THz Measurement Techniques will take place on 30th June 2008 at the Institute of Physics, London.

The THz part of the electromagnetic spectrum spanning between the microwave and infrared has been used extensively to perform astronomical and meteorological observations, to detect the state of plasma in tokamac reactors, and to provide measurements of interest to chemists and the biomedical community. This meeting invites submissions in the area of novel THz measurement systems, particularly those that are application-focussed. Examples include Fourier or Hadamard transform spectrometers with no moving parts, radiometric systems and techniques, radar systems,  far-infrared microscopy, advances in high frequency electron-spin resonance systems, cavity ringdown systems, advances in label free probing of biomolecules, as well as very high bandwidth Josephson junction based A/D conversion techniques for high speed electronics, and quantum limited measurement systems.

Other areas include performance analysis of novel interferometric and polarimetric quasi-optical topologies, continuous wave measurement and imaging techniques based on backward-wave oscillators, multiplication chains or quantum-cascade lasers, novel heterodyning techniques as well as photomixing schemes that rely on the integration of fibre-optics coupled laser sources with THz antennae.  

We are also interested in novel femtosecond-transient THz  pulse measurement modalities such as imaging and tomography, optical pump-THz probe measurements,  frequency-comb spectrometry and asynchronous optical sampling, and the application of non-ballistic photon scattering techniques to samples immersed in random media. Mathematical modelling of THz radiation propagation in tissue, as well as signal-processing techniques developed or adapted specifically for extraction of information arising from the above techniques also lie within the scope of the program.

Contributions related to recent progress in systems that incorporate recent technological advances in Schottky, SIS or HEB mixers, superlattices, quantum dots, spintronic, polaritonic, kinetic inductance  array and THz band-gap and metamaterial based technologies are also welcome. Issues in THz metrology such as electrical feedback substitution and null-balancing schemes will also be discussed.

Please send or email an abstract of approximately 150 words either to:

Dr. Sillas Hadjiloucas
School of Systems Engineering
The University of Reading, RG6 6AY
Tel: 0118 3786787
Email: s.hadjiloucas@reading.ac.uk

or

Prof Andy Augousti
School of Life Sciences, Kingston University
Penrhyn Road, Kingston, Surrey, KT1 2EE
Tel: 0208 547 7480
augousti@kingston.ac.uk

The abstract should be received by the 20^th of June 2008.

If you would like to submit an abstract, but are unsure if it is suitable, please ring one of the organisers on the numbers given above.

Added Wednesday 11th June 2008