New Directions in Terahertz Technology

Theme 1: Background and Introduction.- to terahertz solid-state devices.- Microwave mixers.- Fundamentals of receivers for terahertz systems.- Millimetre wave and terahertz waveguides and measurements.- Theme 2 Device Update.- Unipolar and bipolar resonant tunneling components.- Superconducting mixers for submillimetre wavelengths.- Schottky barrier devices for THz applications.- Device physics of intersubband lasers.- From quantum mechanics to s-parameters?.- Travelling wave detectors — a principle for terahertz operation.- Integrated active devices.- Hot hole lasers.- Theme 3: Integration.- Integrated waveguides and mixers: an overview of waveguide mixer design and construction.- Integrated waveguides and mixers: future technologies for device integration.- Material issues for new devices.- Active antenna power combining, beam control and 2-dimensional combining.- Grid amplifiers.- System characterisation issues for integration.- Theme 4: Applications.- THz astronomy from space.- Submillimetre measurements from satellites.- Spacecraft applications of THz technology.- Millimetre measurements.- What future for wireless telecommunications systems beyond 60 GHz?.- Technical issues of terahertz component fabrication.- Vector measurements from 8 GHz to the THz range, obtained in a real life experiment.- Theme 5: Lightwave/Terahertz Interaction.- Lightwave/terahertz interaction.- Electrooptic and photoconductive techniques for probing and imaging of THz electric signals.- Tunable coherent THz radiation pulses from optically excited bloch oscillations.- Multi-gigahertz optoelectronic devices: Part 1 — resonant tunneling diode (RTD) for optical modulation.- Multi-gigahertz optoelectronic devices: Part 2 — monolithic, harmonic, modelocking of semiconductor lasers.- Listof Speakers.- List of Participants (and group photo).