6.1 Outlook and Future Work
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the most commonly used components for commercially available THz spectrocopy
and imaging systems, and interdigitated photoconductive emitters (such as Laser
Quantum’s Tera-SED device) have been available commercially for a number of
years; as such, the technology currently exists to allow straightforward implementation of the techniques and components presented in this thesis in commercially
available systems. A particularly exciting future prospect would be in combining
the techniques and components presented in this thesis with fibre-coupled THz-TDS
systems; their increased portability may permit the anisotropic properties of materials to be investigated outside of a laboratory setting, bridging the gap to a myriad of
potential applications in industry and beyond.
113
the most commonly used components for commercially available THz spectrocopy
and imaging systems, and interdigitated photoconductive emitters (such as Laser
Quantum’s Tera-SED device) have been available commercially for a number of
years; as such, the technology currently exists to allow straightforward implementation of the techniques and components presented in this thesis in commercially
available systems. A particularly exciting future prospect would be in combining
the techniques and components presented in this thesis with fibre-coupled THz-TDS
systems; their increased portability may permit the anisotropic properties of materials to be investigated outside of a laboratory setting, bridging the gap to a myriad of
potential applications in industry and beyond.