10-8-09 T-ray Group Wiki Minute
Minutes for meeting of 10/8/2009
Held in EM412, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm
Participants: Derek (chair), Hungyen, Longfang, Shaghik, Shaoming, and Henry (minutes)
Absent: Ben, Jega, Gretel, Hendrik , Christophe, Mayank, Ali, Brian, Afshar and Inke
1. Presentation of this week
• Shaoming: “ THz Single De-noising via Redundant Representation”
2. Interesting Journal Articles
• Large-area sub-micron gap interdigitated THz emitters fabricated by interference lithography and angle evaporation
• Characterization of terahertz field confinement at the end of a tapered metal wire waveguide
• Terahertz dielectric spectra of (Ba,Sr)TiO3 thin films
• Focusing of Terahertz Waves onto Micron-sized Slits Grown on ZnTe and GaP Substrates
• Study of responsiveness of near-field terahertz imaging probes
• Obtaining Low-Frequency Spectra of Acetone Dissolved in Cyclohexane by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy
• Strongly subluminal regime of optical-to-terahertz conversion in GaP
• Coarse Graining of Intermolecular Vibrations by a Karhunen-Loeve Transformation of Atomic Displacement Vectors
• Broadband terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of drugs-of-abuse and the use of principal component analysis
• Coherent Polarization Control of Terahertz Waves Generated from Two-Color Laser-Induced Gas Plasma
• Tunable terahertz metamaterials with negative permeability
• Subwavelength Dielectric-Fiber-Based THz Coupler
• Ultra-Wideband Transmission Over Low Loss PCF
• Terahertz-Radiation Photoconductive Antenna in Sputtered Zinc Oxide Thin Film
• Confocal terahertz imaging
3. Individual reports
3.1 Hungyen
• Got the source antenna and will set it on Wed
• Do some measurements
3.1 Shaghik
• Realigning
• Go DTSO on Tuesday
3.2 Longfang
• Work on circular polarizing antenna
• Got access to the software
3.3 Shaoming
• Work on Bernd’s data (detect peak in noisy data and decrease the noise floor)
• More programming
3.4 Mayank
• Reading paper
• Try to produce some results
• Derek suggested he can access IEEE papers via library
4. Open day on Sunday
• Make sure the laser is off
• Take all the panel off and open the windows
• Tidy up the bio lab
