T-Ray Grants Toptica Tech License

Terahertz (THz) research company T-Ray Science Inc. announced it has granted a licensing agreement to Toptica Photonics Inc., a THz source supplier.

Under the terms of the agreement, the former company will collect royalties on the US sales of the latter company’s THz standard package plus spectroscopy kit, which uses a coherent detection technique for continuous-wave THz signals.

T-Ray’s platform THz imaging technology is anticipated to have many applications, including homeland security; the detection of explosives and ceramic knives; process control in the paper, plastics, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries; and medical imaging for the detection of skin and other cancers.

The technology has the potential to change the way many diseases are diagnosed and even cured.

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