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Ulrike Willer1, Andreas Pohlkötter, Wolfgang Schade
1Clausthal University of Technology, LaserApplicationCenter, Am Stollen 19/Haus3,38640 Goslar, Germany. u.willer@pe.tu-clausthal.de
Abstract:
THz-sensing is an emerging technology that would be advantageous for a variety of applications in industry, biology, biochemistry and security, if small and convenient to use sources and detectors would be readily available. However, most of them are bulky, complicate to operate, and need cryogenic cooling. Here we present a new detection scheme that is versatile enough to detect electro-magnetic radiation within the whole spectrum, can be easily applied to the THz-range, and operates at room temperature. The mechanism is based on the resonant excitation of a quartz tuning fork.
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