{"id":101156,"date":"2020-01-21T12:14:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/record-breaking-terahertz-laser-beam"},"modified":"2020-01-21T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:14:51","slug":"record-breaking-terahertz-laser-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/record-breaking-terahertz-laser-beam","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking terahertz laser beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-breaking-terahertz-laser-beam.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Terahertz radiation is used for security checks at airports, for medical examinations and also for quality checks in industry. However, radiation in the terahertz range is extremely difficult to generate. Scientists at TU Wien have now succeeded in developing a terahertz radiation source that breaks several records: it is extremely efficient, and its spectrum is very broad\u2014it generates different wavelengths from the entire terahertz range. This opens up the possibility of creating short radiation pulses with extremely high radiation intensity. The new terahertz technology has now been presented in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p><b>The \u201cTerahertz Gap\u201d Between Lasers and Antennas<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerahertz <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radiation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radiation<\/a> has very useful properties,\u201d says Claudia Gollner from the Institute of Photonics at TU Wien. \u201cIt can easily penetrate many materials, but unlike X-rays, it is harmless because it is not ionizing radiation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terahertz radiation is used for security checks at airports, for medical examinations and also for quality checks in industry. However, radiation in the terahertz range is extremely difficult to generate. Scientists at TU Wien have now succeeded in developing a terahertz radiation source that breaks several records: it is extremely efficient, and its spectrum is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}