About
High-power Terahertz
Triseka is a technology company with a sharp focus on advancing the use of terahertz. Terahertz is the final frontier on the electromagnetic spectrum, and Triseka has assembled the team that will conquer it.
Filling In The Terahertz Gap
Terahertz radiation lies within a section of the electromagnetic spectrum that falls between light waves and radio waves and comprises roughly one trillion waves per second. Light waves in the frequency of terahertz can be referred to as T-rays. Whereas energy from the rest of the spectrum is used throughout our daily lives, T-rays have remained mostly unused because of the difficulty of creating reliable and powerful sources to generate and control them. Developments have led to some commercially available low-power T-ray sources and research on their applications across myriad industries is accelerating.
This is Going To Be Powerful
Triseka’s terahertz source is designed to be100 to 1000 times more powerfulthan currently available terahertz machines. The technology is scalable to 100 watts or higher because the technique does not involve heating of any component within the system. This level of power has yet to be achieved in a commercial setting, but we’ve seen what it can do in research laboratories. The difference is significant – like comparing the light that comes from a candle to that of a floodlight. Triseka is looking forward to turning the floodlights on.
The Technology
Our high-power terahertz source starts with electrons. An electron is a charged particle with an electric field. Electrons produce a magnetic field when moving, and produce an electromagnetic field (light or radio) when accelerating. Radio waves and light waves differ from each other only in their wavelengths. Radio waves are much longer than light waves and produce fewer waves per second. The former can have kilometer-length wavelengths, while the latter have wavelengths that vary from a few microns (infrared), to a few hundred nanometers (visible light) to less than a nanometer (x-ray).
Terahertz waves are a few tenths of a millimeter in length and lie directly between radio and light waves. Although we’ve been aware of terahertz waves for over a hundred years, producing them has been a challenge. To overcome that, our source plays a trick with physics that causes the electrons to travel in free space with no material constraints at speeds just shy of the speed of light. When they enter magnetic fields they produce T-rays. The non-ionizing light is then transported to a patient area where it is reflected from the tissue under examination and detected by a special camera that generates images on a monitor for the healthcare provider to review.
