Developing Hardware for Chip-scale Coherent Terahertz Lasers
Supervisor: Dr Kaveh Delfanazari
School: Engineering
Description:
This project focuses on the development of enabling hardware for chip-scale coherent terahertz (THz) lasers, a technology with significant potential across a wide range of scientific, industrial, quantum, and space applications. Terahertz radiation, occupying the spectral region between microwave and infrared frequencies, offers unique capabilities for high-resolution imaging, spectroscopy, communications, and sensing, as well as emerging roles in quantum systems and instrumentation. However, practical deployment has been historically limited by the lack of compact, efficient, and coherent THz sources. The central aim of this work is to design, fabricate, and integrate key hardware components that support the realization of miniaturized, chip-scale THz laser systems. Ultimately, the outcomes of this project are expected to contribute to the advancement of next-generation sensing, imaging, communication, and quantum technologies, enabling new applications in areas such as security screening, biomedical diagnostics, high-speed wireless data transmission, and quantum information processing.