Focus on Zomega Terahertz Corporation

Recently, I've been fortunate to establish communication with Thomas Tongue, the CEO at Zomega Corporation, http://www.zomega-terahertz.com/. Thomas's bio, on the webpage, notes the following:

"With over twelve years of entrepreneurial and management experience, and a strong technical background founded in his Masters degree in Physics, Thomas bridges the gap between the technical potential of terahertz imaging and the market. His prior start-up experience includes co-founding Imagiware, Inc., an Internet solution provider focusing on web presence and software development, which he bootstrapped to profitability by mid-1996. Thomas earned his MBA from the Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute."

In responding to questions about Zomega, Tom writes:

"Hi Randy,

We recently opened a new section of our web site dedicated to THz Imaging which has some materials I think will be of general interest. This is in support of our Teracopia project whose primary goal is to distribute THz imaging data and supporting software under a Creative Commons license so that people can start to think about how to use this powerful new tool and what sort of data processing challenges are involved (they're non-trivial). So I'd invite you to have a look around that section and let me know what questions you might have."

The Teracopia project is found on the company webpage, here: http://www.zomega-terahertz.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=60

Interesting material, and if some of you have specific questions, please post or send them to me, and I'll see if I can get Tom to answer some of them.

I understood Tom's email to also express that he views the current state of THz  market development, (in this very early stage), to be one where the various THz companies, are not usually  in direct competition, but rather are creating specific tools for particular niches. Hence my understanding is, he didn't believe it would be helpful, or practical to compare differing applications because each system is employed in a particular context, which makes overall comparison difficult. I had a sense, that he views the THz community in a very " fraternal sense", and given the many years of struggle to bring  THz from the laboratory to practical/commercial use, I understand why this sense of  comradery would be present.

                       Zomega Terahertz Corporation - December 2010 - Front: Wendy Zhang, Dr. X.-C. Zhang, Thomas Tongue; Back: Dr. Ying Xu, Scott Stewart, Joshua Hernandez, Dr. Brian Schulkin, Justin St. James, Dr. Norman Laman, Dr. Chia-Chu Chen, Erick Tejada

Here's wishing Thomas Tongue, and the creative engineers and scientists working there the greatest success!

And thanks to Thomas for sharing a few thoughts with me, and you.