The 2018 Young Scientist Award Lecture: Terahertz diagnostics in multidisciplinary fields

In this talk I will present a series of applied research projects that my group has worked in the last few years that involve the use of terahertz radiation in many fields including cultural heritage evaluation, industrial quality control, materials science, biology and medicine. I will also try to summarize the work of some other groups in terahertz applications and discuss the challenges and opportunities I see in the implementation of applications of terahertz radiation in many fields.

[1]  E. Castro-Camus,et al.  Examination of Painting on Metal Support by Terahertz Time-Domain Imaging , 2017 .

[2]  D. Mittleman,et al.  Artificial dielectric stepped-refractive-index lens for the terahertz region. , 2018, Optics Express.

[3]  M. Koch,et al.  Non-destructive Analysis of Material Detachments from Polychromatically Glazed Terracotta Artwork by THz Time-of-Flight Spectroscopy , 2017 .

[4]  S. C. Rojas-Landeros,et al.  Pixel Statistical Analysis of Diabetic vs. Non-diabetic Foot-Sole Spectral Terahertz Reflection Images , 2018 .

[5]  M. Koch,et al.  Determination of Leaf Water Content from Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopic Data , 2013 .

[6]  Martin Koch,et al.  Fabrication of gradient-refractive-index lenses for terahertz applications by three-dimensional printing , 2016 .

[7]  E. Castro-Camus,et al.  Beating the wavelength limit: three-dimensional imaging of buried subwavelength fractures in sculpture and construction materials by terahertz time-domain reflection spectroscopy. , 2013, Applied optics.

[8]  E. Castro-Camus,et al.  Terahertz meets sculptural and architectural art: Evaluation and conservation of stone objects with T-ray technology , 2015, Scientific reports.

[9]  S. C. Rojas-Landeros,et al.  History of Mexican Easel Paintings from an Altarpiece Revealed by Non-invasive Terahertz Time-Domain Imaging , 2017 .

[10]  M. Palomar,et al.  Leaf water dynamics of Arabidopsis thaliana monitored in-vivo using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy , 2013, Scientific Reports.

[11]  S. C. Rojas-Landeros,et al.  Terahertz imaging for early screening of diabetic foot syndrome: A proof of concept , 2017, Scientific Reports.

[12]  S. C. Corzo-Garcia,et al.  Quality control of leather by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. , 2014, Applied optics.

[13]  E. Castro-Camus,et al.  Quasi-Wollaston-Prism for Terahertz Frequencies Fabricated by 3D Printing , 2017 .

[14]  D. Lopez-Mago,et al.  q-plate for the Generation of Terahertz Cylindrical Vector Beams Fabricated by 3D Printing , 2017 .