“Comb” Created To Detect Terahertz Waves, California Institute of Technology Study

Terahertz waves are beginning to be used in everyday applications within the security sector, for security screening, and the medical field to replace the more harmful X-ray.

Now, chemists at Caltech have created a frequency comb that precisely generates and detects terahertz waves. The device uses ultrafast pulsed lasers, or oscillators, to produce thousands of frequencies of radiation distributed evenly across a spectrum.

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