Review on the terahertz metasensor: from featureless refractive index sensing to molecular identification

Jiaming Lyu; Lihao Huang; Lin Chen; Yiming Zhu; Songlin Zhuang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.508136

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 2, 194(2024)

Review on the terahertz metasensor: from featureless refractive index sensing to molecular identification

Jiaming Lyu¹, Lihao Huang¹, Lin Chen^1,2、*, Yiming Zhu^1,3, and Songlin Zhuang¹

¹THz Technology Innovation Research Institute, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

²Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

³e-mail: ymzhu@usst.edu.cn

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Jiaming Lyu, Lihao Huang, Lin Chen, Yiming Zhu, Songlin Zhuang, "Review on the terahertz metasensor: from featureless refractive index sensing to molecular identification," Photonics Res. 12, 194 (2024)

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Paper Information

Category: Instrumentation and Measurements

Received: Oct. 12, 2023

Accepted: Dec. 4, 2023

Published Online: Jan. 25, 2024

The Author Email: Lin Chen (linchen@usst.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.508136

Topics

laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

Laser physics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology