TéraHertz Occitanie

THz platform

The THz platform was created as part of a technology platform called "TeraPole," which was subsidized by the Languedoc-Roussillon region (2006-2009).

Since its inception, the THz Platform has continued to develop and expand, acquiring the equipment needed for research projects with the help of funding. Part of the acquisition was subsidized by the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, for example, through the GEPETOS project.

The platform is also open to internal and external users. External users are generally researchers from laboratories that are members of national or international THz research groups, of which the THz team is also a part. Often, external users and the THz team have joint projects that are carried out on the THz Platform and/or at partners' 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" Construction of "all solid state" gas spectrometer for medical diagnostics of exhaled breath.
  • 2015-2017 Contract with DGA (French Defense Procurement Agency) "Penetrating Imaging in Degraded Atmospheric Conditions"
  • 2014-2017 ANR NADIA Project "Integrated Nano-Detectors for Terahertz Applications"

Recently, thanks to the Platform, a collaboration with CIRAD and the Laboratory of Mechanics and Civil Engineering (LMGC) at the University of Montpellier was established, which led to the following cross-disciplinary projects:

  • “Sorghum characterization using THz imaging techniques”: CIRAD–L2C collaboration;
  • “Terahertz Observation of Moisture Convection-Diffusion in Wood”: collaboration between the Laboratory of Mechanics and Civil Engineering (LMGC) and L2C
  • Terahertz radiation for detecting wood diseases