TeraHertz Occitanie

THz Platform

The THz platform was established as part of the “TeraPole” technology platform, which was funded by the Languedoc-Roussillon region (2006–2009).

Since its inception, the THz Platform has continued to grow and expand its inventory of equipment needed for research projects, thanks to funding from these projects. Some of the equipment was subsidized by the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, for example, through the GEPETOS project.

The platform is also open to both internal and external users. External users are typically researchers from laboratories that are members of national or international THz research consortia, of which the THz team is also a part. Often, external users and the THz team collaborate on joint projects carried out at the THz Platform and/or at partner experimental sites.

In recent years, the THz Platform has been used to carry out national projects (ANR projects, regional projects, industrial contracts) as well as the following international programs (European and International Projects):

  • 2020–2023 FLAG-ERA International Project DeMeGRaS: “Detection Mechanisms in Graphene Radiation Sensors”
  • 2019–2022 ANR COLECTOR Project “Collective excitations in topological matter”
  • 2019 – IRP TeraMIR “Laboratory of Terahertz and Mid-Infrared Collective Phenomena in Semiconductor Nanostructures”
  • 2014–2019 LIA TeraMIR “Laboratory of Terahertz and Mid-Infrared Collective Phenomena in Semiconductor Nanostructures”
  • 2017–2020 Biosensors for Terahertz Spectroscopy of Proteins
  • 2018–2020 ANR DIRAC3D “Low-energy excitations in 3D Dirac and Weyl semimetals”
  • 2016–2018 European EraNet Rus Plus Project “TeraSense”: Development of an “all-solid-state” gas spectrometer for medical diagnostics of exhaled breath.
  • 2015–2017 Contract with the DGA: “Penetrating Imaging in Adverse Weather Conditions”
  • 2014–2017 ANR NADIA Project: “Integrated NAno-Detectors for Terahertz Applications”

Recently, through the Platform, a collaboration was established with CIRAD and the Laboratory of Mechanics and Civil Engineering (LMGC) at the University of Montpellier, leading to the following interdisciplinary projects:

  • “Characterization of sorghum using THz imaging”: a collaboration between CIRAD and L2C;
  • “Terahertz Observation of Moisture Convection-Diffusion in Wood”: a collaboration between the Laboratory of Mechanics and Civil Engineering (LMGC) and L2C
  • Terahertz radiation for the detection of wood diseases