The terahertz revolution

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Just a few years ago sensors operating at terahertz wavelengths were almost unheard of. Today, the technology is being used to improve the safety of the Space Shuttle, and could soon be used in airport-security scanners. Nadya Anscombe talks to René Beigang, head of the Ultrafast Photonics and Terahertz Physics Group at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany, about how terahertz radiation is being used to create a wide range of new test and measurement systems

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