Boston Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society

Terahertz Systems Workshop 

Wednesday, October 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9, 2005, 7:00-9:30 PM
Located at MIT Lincoln Laboratory - 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA, 02420, USA

Overview:
The Terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum, which spans from 300 GHz to 10 THz, has attracted a lot of attention in recent years due to potential applications in the commercial, scientific, and government arenas. The following list is just a sample of the areas where terahertz imaging and sensing can yield new technical capability and new business opportunities:

• Food and Medicine: Mammography, Dentistry (detection of tooth decay), Medical diagnostics (early detection of skin cancer, bone density), Endoscopy, Food industry process control (moisture detection), Pharmaceutical process control (pill inspection)

• Government: Home land Security - concealed weapon identification, detection of suicide bombers, biological threat detection, NASA - detection of voids in the space shuttle foam, Air Force - high rate and secure data transfer, flame analysis (rocket or jet engine burn optimization), Army - seeing through sand storms, TSA - passenger screening, hidden weapons detection, contraband detection

• Scientific: Earth remote sensing, Astrophysics (THz astronomy), Chemistry, Environmental sensing (pollution detection), Plasma diagnostics, Biochemistry (DNA analysis)

The workshop's technical level is intended for a general scientific audience. The speakers are selected from academia, industry and government, and who will be covering topics in terahertz generation, detection, and its applications.

Target Audience:
The workshop is targeted towards working engineers and scientists, local industry professionals, and graduate students unfamiliar with the Terahertz field, who want to learn more about the technologies and potential applications of this rapidly growing field.

Handouts:
Printed copies of the speakers Power Point slides will be provided to all registered attendees in advance of the talks.

For more information on the technical content of the workshop, contact either:
1) Matt Emsley (memsley@ieee.org), Central New England LEOS Chapter Chair
2) Farhad Hakimi (fhakimi@ieee.org), Terahertz Systems Workshop-Technical Program Committee Chair
3) Bill Nelson (w.nelson@ieee.org), Terahertz Systems Workshop-Technical Program Committee Co-Chair