Diffuse Beam with Electronic THz Source Array
An array of terahertz sources in 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS has previously been developed to mitigate the well-known issue of low available power from compact terahertz sources. However, the device projects beams toward different, non-overlapping directions, rendering it unsuitable for use as a general-purpose illumination source. To address this issue, custom optics are employed for incoherent power combining, and subsequently utilized in a demonstration of terahertz imaging.
This document is the accepted manuscript version that has been published in final form in: 2018 43rd International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz). https://doi.org/10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2018.8509901
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