{"id":155835,"date":"2023-01-19T23:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chips-using-integrated-photonic-circuits-could-help-close-the-terahertz-gap"},"modified":"2023-01-19T23:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:22:52","slug":"chips-using-integrated-photonic-circuits-could-help-close-the-terahertz-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chips-using-integrated-photonic-circuits-could-help-close-the-terahertz-gap","title":{"rendered":"Chips using integrated photonic circuits could help close the \u2018terahertz gap\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chips-using-integrated-photonic-circuits-could-help-close-the-terahertz-gap.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed an extremely thin chip with an integrated photonic circuit that could be used to exploit the so-called terahertz gap \u2013 lying between 0.3-30THz in the electromagnetic spectrum \u2013 for spectroscopy and imaging.<\/p>\n<p>This gap is currently something of a technological dead zone, describing frequencies that are too fast for today\u2019s electronics and telecommunications devices, but too slow for optics and imaging applications.<\/p>\n<p>However, the scientists\u2019 new chip now enables them to produce terahertz waves with tailored frequency, wavelength, amplitude and phase. Such precise control could enable terahertz radiation to be harnessed for next-generation applications in both the electronic and optical realms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed an extremely thin chip with an integrated photonic circuit that could be used to exploit the so-called terahertz gap \u2013 lying between 0.3-30THz in the electromagnetic spectrum \u2013 for spectroscopy and imaging. This gap is currently something of a technological dead zone, describing frequencies that are too fast for today\u2019s electronics and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155835","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}