The Terahertz Photonics group (TPG) headed by Prof. Thomas Schneider is dedicated to integrated photonics, nonlinear optical sensing and signal processing like stimulated Brillouin scattering for next-gen optical communication. The group has successfully demonstrated optical sensing and nonlinear optical signal processing for several RF/microwave applications based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). Currently, the group is working with other project partners on photonics enabled Nyquist engine, high-speed optical digital to analog converter (DAC) and ultra-wideband optical sampler for high-speed optical communication and metrology purposes.

In the Meteracom project, the Terahertz Photonics group will work on metrology for high-bandwidth sampling systems to develop a wide-band sampling metrology and provide an exact as possible definition of the difference between ideal and practical sampling. Additionally, it should allow the comparison of THz-communication sampling systems.