Quasi-optic synthetic phased-array terahertz imaging

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1178-1191

  O'Hara, John ^a   Grischkowsky, D ^a  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECORDING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

COHERENT IMAGES; OPTICAL PHASED ARRAY; QUASI-OPTIC TERAHERTZ IMAGING SYSTEM;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044287275     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001178     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. D. H. Auston, K. P. Cheung, and P. R. Smith, "Picosecond photoconducting Hertzian dipoles," Appl. Phys. Lett. 45, 24-286 (1984).
2. M. B. Ketchen, D. Grischkowsky, T. C. Chen, C.-C. Chi, I. N. Duling III, N. J. Halas, J.-M. Halbout, J. A. Kash, and G. P. Li, "Generation of subpicosecond electrical pulses on coplanar transmission lines," Appl. Phys. Lett. 48, 751-753 (1986).
3. B. B. Hu, X.-C. Zhang, D. H. Auston, and P. R. Smith, "Free-space radiation from electro-optic crystals," Appl. Phys. Lett. 56, 506-508 (1990).
4. Q. Wu and X.-C. Zhang, "Free-space electro-optic sampling of terahertz beams," Appl. Phys. Lett. 67, 3523-3525 (1995).
5. M. van Exter and D. R. Grischkowsky, "Characterization of an optoelectronic terahertz beam system," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 38, 1684-1691 (1990).
6. K. McClatchey, M. T. Reiten, and R. A. Cheville, "Time resolved synthetic aperture terahertz impulse imaging," Appl. Phys. Lett. 79 4485-4487 (2001).
7. J. O'Hara and D. Grischkowsky, "Synthetic phased-array terahertz imaging," Opt. Lett. 27, 1070-1072 (2002).
8. L. Thrane, R. H. Jacobsen, P. Uhd Jepsen, and S. R. Keiding, "THz reflection spectroscopy of liquid water," Chem. Phys. Lett. 240, 330-333 (1995).
9. J. T. Kindt and C. A. Schmuttenmaer, "Far-infrared dielectric properties of polar liquids probed by femtosecond terahertz pulse spectroscopy," J. Phys. Chem. 100, 10373-10379 (1996).
10. M. P. van Exter, C. Fattinger, and D. Grischkowsky, "Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of water vapor," Opt. Lett. 14, 1128-1130 (1989).
11. D. M. Mittleman, R. H. Jacobsen, and M. C. Nuss, "T-ray imaging," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 679-692 (1996).
12. B. B. Hu and M. C. Nuss, "Imaging with terahertz waves," Opt. Lett. 20, 1716-1718 (1995).
13. D. M. Mittleman, S. Hunsche, L. Boivin, and M. C. Nuss, "T-ray tomography," Opt. Lett. 22, 904-906 (1997).
14. Q. Wu, T. D. Hewitt, and X.-C. Zhang, "Two-dimensional electro-optic imaging of THz beams," Appl. Phys. Lett. 69, 1026-1028 (1996 ).
15. Z. Jiang and X.-C. Zhang, "Single-shot spatiotemporal terahertz field imaging," Opt. Lett. 23, 1114-1116 (1998).
16. J. O'Hara and D. Grischkowsky, "Quasi-optic terahertz imaging," Opt. Lett. 26, 1918-1920 (2001).
17. N. Katzenellenbogen and D. Grischkowsky, "Efficient generation of 380 fs pulses of THz radiation by ultrafast laser pulse excitation of a biased metal-semiconductor interface," Appl. Phys. Lett. 58, 222-224 (1991).
18. A. J. den Dekker and A. van den Bos, "Resolution: a survey," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14, 547-557 (1997).
19. A. B. Ruffin, J. Decker, L. Sanchez-Palencia, L. Le Hors, J. F. Whitaker, T. B. Norris, and J. V. Rudd, "Time reversal and object reconstruction with single-cycle pulses," Opt. Lett. 26, 681-683 (2001).
20. J. L. Johnson, T. D. Dorney, and D. M. Mittleman, "Interferometric imaging with terahertz pulses," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 7, 592-599 (2001).
21. S. Krishnamurthy, M. T. Reiten, S. A. Harmon, and R. A. Cheville, "Characterization of thin polymer films using terahertz time-domain interferometry," Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 875-877 (2001).
22. J. O'Hara, "Experimental study of a quasi-optic synthetic phased-array terahertz imaging system," Ph.D. dissertation (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla., 2003).
23. M. Ryle and A. Hewish, "The synthesis of large radio telescopes," Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 120, 220-230 (1960).
24. P. J. Napier, A. R. Thompson, and R. D. Ekers, "The very large array: design and performance of a modern synthesis radio telescope," Proc. IEEE 71, 1295-1322 (1983).
25. P. J. Napier, D. S. Bagri, B. G. Clark, A. E. E. Rogers, J. D. Romney, A. R. Thompson, and R. C. Walker, "The very long baseline array," Proc. IEEE 82, 658-672 (1994).
26. A. Labeyrie, "Interference fringes obtained on Vega with two optical telescopes," Astrophys. J. Lett. 196, L71-L75 (1975).
27. A. R. Haijan and J. T. Armstrong, "A sharper view of the stars," Sci. Am. 284, 56-63 (2001).
28. A. Broquetas, J. Palau, L. Jofre, and A. Cardama, "Spherical wave near-field imaging and radar cross-section measurement," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 46, 730-735 (1998).
29. D. Mensa, High Resolution Radar Imaging (Artech House, Dedham, Mass., 1981).
30. T. D. Dorney, J. L. Johnson, J. Van Rudd, R. G. Baraniuk, W. W. Symes, and D. M. Mittleman, "Terahertz reflection imaging using Kirchhoff migration," Opt. Lett. 26, 1513-1515 (2001).
31. J. D. Kraus, Radio Astronomy (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1966).
32. D. R. Wehner, High Resolution Radar (Artech House, Norwood, Mass., 1987).
33. R. W. McGowan, R. A. Cheville, and D. R. Grischkowsky, "Experimental study of the surface waves on a dielectric cylinder via terahertz impulse radar ranging," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 48, 417-422 (2000).
34. J. J. Stamnes, Waves in Focal Regions (Adam Hilger, Bristol, England, 1986).
35. J. W. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics, 2nd ed. (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996).
36. E. Hecht, Optics, 4th ed. (Addison-Wesley, San Francisco, Calif., 2002).
37. M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, 7th ed. (Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1999).
38. Y. Li and E. Wolf, "Three-dimensional intensity distribution near the focus in systems of different Fresnel numbers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1, 801-808 (1984).