Deviation of optical constants extracted in terahertz transmission spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 648-652

  Xu, Xinlong ^a   Wang, Xiumin ^a   Wang, Li ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE;

DEFLECTION ANGLE; LORENTZ OSCILLATOR; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; TERAHERTZ TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY (TTS);

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33645025522     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000648     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. E. D. Palik, Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids (Academic, New York, 1991).
2. M. V. Exter, C. Fattinger, and D. Grischkowsky, "Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of water vapor," Opt. Lett. 14, 1128-1130 (1989).
3. D. H. Auston and K. P. Cheung, "Coherent time-domain far-infrared spectroscopy," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 1, 606-612 (1985).
4. D. Grischkowsky, S. Keiding, M. van Exter, and Ch. Fattinger, "Far-infrared time-domain spectroscopy with terahertz beams of dielectrics and semiconductors," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 7, 2006-2014 (1990).
5. M. Schall, H. Helm, and S. R. Keiding, "Far-infrared properties of electro-optic crystals measured by THz time-domain spectroscopy," Int. J. Infrared Millim. Waves 20, 595-605 (1999).
6. T. Kiwa and M. Tonouchi, "High frequency properties of YBCO thin films diagnosed by time-domain terahertz spectroscopy," Physica C 362, 314-318 (2001).
7. A. G. Markelz, A. Roitberg, and E. J. Heilweil, "Pulse terahertz spectroscopy of DNA, bovine serum albumin and collagen between 0.1 and 2.0 THz," Chem. Phys. Lett. 320, 42-48 (2000).
8. B. M. Fischer, M. Walther, and P. Uhd Jepsen, "Far-infrared vibrational modes of DNA components studied by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy," Phys. Med. Biol. 47, 3807-3814 (2002).
9. P. Uhd Jepsen and B. M. Fischer, "Dynamic range in terahertz time-domain transmission and reflection spectroscopy," Opt. Lett. 30, 29-31 (2005).
10. M. van Exter and D. R. Grischkowsky, "Characterization of an optoelectronic terahertz beam system," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Tech. 38, 1684-1691 (1990).
11. L. Duvillaret, F. Garet, and J.-L. Coutaz, "Influence of noise on the characterization of materials by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 17, 452-461 (2000).
12. L. Duvillaret, F. Garet, and J.-L. Coutaz, "A reliable method for extraction of material parameters in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2, 793-745 (1996).
13. T. D. Dorney, R. G. Baraniuk, and D. M. Mittleman, "Material parameter estimation with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18, 1562-11570 (2001).
14. L. Duvillaret, F. Garet, and J.-L. Coutaz, "Highly precise determination of optical constants and sample thickness in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy," Appl. Opt. 38, 409-415 (1998).
15. H. Sakai, G. A. Vanasse, and M. L. Forman, "Spectral recovery in Fourier spectroscopy," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 58, 84-90 (1968).
16. L. Palchetti and D. Lastrucci, "Spectral noise due to sampling errors in Fourier-transform spectroscopy," Appl. Opt. 40, 3235-3243 (1998).
17. R. C. M. Learner, A. P. Thorne, and J. W. Brault, "Ghosts and artifacts in Fourier-transform spectroscopy," Appl. Opt. 35, 2947-2954 (1996).
18. T. -I. Jeon and D. Grischkowsky, "Characterization of optically dense, doped semiconductors by reflection THz time-domain spectroscopy," Appl. Phys. Lett. 72, 3032-3034 (1998).
19. J. Son, J. V. Rudd, and J. F. Whitaker, "Noise characterization of a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser," Opt. Lett. 17, 733-735 (1992).
20. L. Andor, A. Lörincz, J. Siemion, D. D. Smith, and S. A. Rice, "Shot-noise-limited detection scheme for two-beam laser spectroscopies," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 55, 64-67 (1984).
21. S. Mickan, D. Abbott, J. Munch, and X.-C. Zhang, "Noise reduction in terahertz thin film measurement using double modulated differential technique," Fluct. Noise Lett. 2, R13-R28 (2002).
22. S. Mickan, D. Abbott, J. Munch, X.-C. Zhang, and T. van Dorn, "Analysis of system trade-offs for terahertz imaging," Microelectron. J. 31, 503-514 (2000).
23. J. Z. Xu, T. Yuan, S. Mickan, and X.-C. Zhang, "Fundamental limit of spectral in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy," Chin. Phys. Lett. 20, 1266-1268 (2003).