TeraCom Consortium Meeting, 9-10 January 2024

Photograph of members of the TeraCom consortium discussing ideas for public engagement in a workshop setting.

Day 1 workshop session focusing on developing ideas for public engagement activities. Ideas generated included a simple optical communication system demo, a laser maze, and ‘dress up as a laser scientist’. These ideas will be developed to support the programme’s public engagement and outreach activities.

Day 2 presentations:

‘QCL sources: Current position and future perspectives’ (Mohammed Salih and Connor Kidd)

‘Terahertz modulation with close to 100% amplitude modulation depth’ (Ruqiao Xia)

‘Design optimization and temperature performance analysis of photo-electric tunable-step THz
detectors’ (Ran Chen)

Keynote: Professor Hartmut Roskos (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)