Shining the light to terahertz spectroscopy of nL-volume biological samples

Sergey I. Mitryukovskiy (1) , Melanie Lavancier (1, 2) , Flavie Braud (1, 3) , Goedele Roos (4) , Theo Hannotte (1, 2) , Emmanuel Dubois (1, 5) , Jean-Francois Lampin (1, 2) , Romain Peretti (1, 2)

1 IEMN - Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520
2 PHOTONIQUE THZ - IEMN - Photonique THz - IEMN
3 CMNF - IEMN - Centrale de Micro Nano Fabrication - IEMN
4 UGSF - Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle - UMR 8576
5 MICROELEC SI - IEMN - Microélectronique Silicium - IEMN

We present a technique allowing the confinement of a broadband terahertz pulse to a few-nL volume. The method is approved in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy study of biological samples and further perspectives are discussed.

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Physique [physics]; Biophysique [physics.bio-ph]; Chimie-Physique [physics.chem-ph]; Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]; Optique [physics.optics]

Sergey I. Mitryukovskiy, Melanie Lavancier, Flavie Braud, Goedele Roos, Theo Hannotte, et al.. Shining the light to terahertz spectroscopy of nL-volume biological samples. CLEO (The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Conference) 2019, May 2019, San Jose, United States. paper ATu3K.6, 2 p., ⟨10.1364/CLEO_AT.2019.ATu3K.6⟩. ⟨hal-02158865⟩