New Gas Detector (VIDEO)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Caption

Animated graph shows the NIST detector's linear increase in frequency as a function of time, sweeping from 550-561 Gigahertz in frequency over 100 nanoseconds (here slowed to 5 seconds and using an audio chirp as an analogy to the terahertz chirp).

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Plusquellic, NIST

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