A new system boosts the performance of detection systems and helps to create new antennas for mobile telephony and on-board satellite systems: An innovative transmission system takes advantage of a previously under-utilized wavelength: the terahertz. What's the common denominator between collecting meteorological data from space, searching for flaws on an aircraft fuselage, or using certain medical diagnostics? With terahertz waves, the targets of all of these could be more rapidly and precisely detected. These waves, whose frequency lies between the infrared band and the microwave band on the light spectrum, have the capability of characterizing surfaces or identifying the components of solids, liquids, even gases. So far considered harmless to human beings, terahertz waves have only been the subject of applied research for a few years. But Swissto12, a spin-off company, is changing that. "We are the first researchers to propose such performant transmission systems in the field of terahertz," explains Alessandro Macor, co-founder of Swissto12 with Emile de Rijk and Jean-Philippe Ansermet. The company, created only four months ago, offers a revolutionary system for guiding terahertz waves, or "T-rays." Swissto12's secret is hidden in a seemingly innocuous metal tube with thousands of micro-washers of a particular diameter and profile stacked inside.
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