2012 THz workshop

Focusing on Radio-over-Fiber Communication

Time：2012/12/03 (Mon.)  

Place:  物理館 019R

　

Welcome Message

Greetings, and welcome to the 2nd annual Workshop on THz Science and Technology (2012 THz Workshop), to be held in Hsinchu, Taiwan on Dec. 3rd, 2012.

The information-intensive 21th century is sometimes referred as the Tera-era. Information needs be generated, stored, manipulated and transmitted to the global village at terabit rate, hopefully wirelessly.  Unfortunately, such high-volume data transmission over air consumes radio bandwidth—lots of it and a great radio spectrum famine is happening. To meet this demand, the terahertz (1 THz = 1012 Hz) wave band of the electromagnetic radiation, which has traditionally only been the domain of astronomers and molecular spectroscopists, must be explored.

Spurred by discovery of new physical principles and innovative technologies in photonics, advanced materials and nanotechnology, novel applications of THz waves in basic science, security, medical diagnostics and treatment, non-destructive inspection, and manufacturing quality-control have recently been demonstrated.  THz sensing, in particular, has attracted lots of attention due to its molecular un-ambiguity.  Marketing opportunities for security screening in airport, counterfeit prevention in drugs/pharmaceuticals, defect detection in semiconductor manufacturing, and other high-value areas appear promising.

        Information and communication technology should also benefit from advances in THz science and technology. The synergy of research areas such as wireless communication, biomedical and environmental sensing, as well as fiber-optic communication with THz science and technology will generate a wealth of applications. A Wireless HD (WiHD) Interest Group (http://www.wirelesshd.org) was recently established to establish a wireless digital interface to broadcast and receive uncompressed high-definition video by exploring the 60 GHz band. The Wireless Gigabit Alliance (http://wirelessgigabitalliance.org/) was created in 2009.  IEEE has already set up a THz Interest Group (IGthz for short) in the IEEE 802.15 WPAN Committee (http://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/IGthz.html).

        In view of this trend, the 2012 THz workshop focuses on photonic approaches to gigabit wireless communication. We are very pleased and indeed honored to have distinguished guests from Osaka University and local scholars presenting the latest advances in this important field.

The workshop organizers are most grateful to our sponsors, the Frontier Research Center and Applied Sciences of Matters NTHU, established through the academic top university program of the Ministry of Education.

As Conference Chair, I cordially invite all of you to participate and enjoy the excitement and fun of the 2012 THz workshop in Hsinchu.

  

Ci-Ling Pan 潘犀靈

Conference Chair, 2012 THz Workshop

Professor and Chair, Dept. of Physics

National Tsing Hua University

Hsinchu, Taiwan

Republic of China