Timetable

Invited speakers

On-chip Coherent THz photonics with frequency combs
Prof. Dr. Giacomo Scalari
Lecturer at the Department of Physics
Institut für Quantenelektronik ETH Zürich – Swiss

Λ-photonic for Terahertz Light -Matter
interactions enhancement: from broadband
concentration to near-field imaging
Prof. Dr. Romain Peretti
Research associate at IEMN- CNRS
Université de Lille – France

Devices to guide and manipulate THz waves
Prof. Dr. Martin Koch
Professor at the Department of Physics
Philipps-Universität Marburg – Germany

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	Day 1 – 29 january	Day 2 – 30 January
08:45	Registrations 08:45 – 09:15
09:00		Λ-photonic for Terahertz Light -Matterinteractions enhancement: from broadbandconcentration to near-field imaging 09:00 – 09:30
09:15	Welcome 09:15 – 09:30
09:30	Devices to guide and manipulate THz waves 09:30 – 10:00	Crack Detection in Pompeii wall paintings using Terahertz Imaging 09:30 – 09:50
09:45		Probing Ozone Exposure Effects on Different plant species with THz Imaging 09:50 – 10:10
10:00	Advanced Nonlinear THz Spectroscopies at the TeraFERMI Beamline 10:00 – 10:20	Terahertz Spectroscopic Imaging and Unsupervised Analysis for Multidomain Non-Destructive Diagnostics 10:10 – 10:30
10:15	Design and Optimization of the THz/IR Beamline SISSI 2.0 at the Elettra Synchrotron Facility 10:20 – 10:40
10:30	Advancing SABINA: Installation, Commissioning Plan, and Early THz Diagnostics 10:40 – 11:00	Recent Advances in Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging for Materials and Cultural Heritage Studies 10:30 – 10:50
10:45		Coffee break 10:50 – 11:20
11:00	Coffee break 11:00 – 11:20
11:15	Terahertz ATR Spectroscopy to Sense Acetone in Water: Toward Biomarker and Contaminant Monitoring 11:20 – 11:40	Demonstration of a Transportable QCL-Based Free-Space link for Reliable THz Communications 11:20 – 11:40
11:30	Electromagnetic Modeling for Material and Metasurface Characterization through Terahertz Time-Domain 11:40 – 12:00	Tailoring sub-THz Beams by Liquid Crystal Assisted Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces 11:40 – 12:00
11:45
12:00	More than meets the eye: depth-resolved THz chemical mapping of multilayered samples 12:00 – 12:20	Photonics at Space–Time Interfaces for Advanced THz-Wave Manipulations 12:00 – 12:20
12:15	Self-Referenced THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy for Reflection Measurements 12:20 – 12:40	Modeling of electromagnetic wave propagation in semimetals 12:20 – 12:40
12:30	Enhanced THz Permeability in Non-Magnetic Drude Conductors 12:40 – 13:00	Nonlinear phonon-polaritonic flat-optics for temporal edge detection in the THz 12:40 – 13:00
12:45
13:00	Lunch 13:00 – 14:30	Lunch 13:00 – 14:20
13:15
13:30
13:45
14:00
14:15		Temperature-dependent birefringence behavior of NdGaO probed by terahertz spectroscopy 14:20 – 14:40
14:30	On-chip Coherent THz photonics with frequency combs 14:30 – 15:00	Unveiling the Semiconducting Properties in Four Different Metal Triphenylenehexathiol-based Metal-Organic Frameworks 14:40 – 15:00
14:45
15:00	Production and Modulation of Fully Circular Ultrabroadband THz Radiation Using Two-Color Plasma Generation 15:00 – 15:20	Transient Terahertz Polaron Conductivity of Magnetite 15:00 – 15:20
15:15	THz Generation via LSPhP-Enhanced Optical Rectification in LiNbO₃ Metasurfaces 15:20 – 15:40 Generation of Few-Cycle THz Pulses in DSTMS Driven by an 8.3-MHz Amplified Mamyshev Oscillator 15:20 – 16:00	Advancing atmospheric pollution monitoring with airborne THz spectrometer 15:20 – 15:40
15:30		Lattice dynamics and carrier transport in HgPSe 15:40 – 16:00
15:45
16:00	Coffee break 16:00 – 16:20	Visit to the Polytechnic and INF-CNR laboratories 16:00 – 17:00
16:15	THz Field Induced Second Harmonic Generation in Epsilon Near Zero Indium Tin Oxide Thin Films 16:20 – 16:40
16:30	Terahertz driven nanosecond dynamics of oxygen defect state in anatase TiO 16:40 – 17:00
16:45
17:00	SiGe on Si material platform for THz applications 17:00 – 17:20
17:15	Dielectric Relaxation Dynamics in Silver Nanoparticle-Doped Chitosan Films 17:20 – 17:40
17:30	Doping density and carrier-phonon coupling in tin based perovskites 17:40 – 18:00
17:45
18:00	Sponsor Talk 18:00 – 18:20
18:15
19:30	Social dinner 19:30 – 21:00
19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30
20:45

	Day 1 – 29 january	Day 2 – 30 January
08:45	Registrations 08:45 – 09:15
09:00

	Day 1 – 29 january	Day 2 – 30 January
09:30	Devices to guide and manipulate THz waves 09:30 – 10:00
09:45

	Day 1 – 29 january	Day 2 – 30 January
10:00	Advanced Nonlinear THz Spectroscopies at the TeraFERMI Beamline 10:00 – 10:20
10:15

	Day 1 – 29 january	Day 2 – 30 January
10:15	Design and Optimization of the THz/IR Beamline SISSI 2.0 at the Elettra Synchrotron Facility 10:20 – 10:40
10:30

TERADAYS Politecnico di Milano

29-30 Gennaio 2026

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Invited speakers