Numerical removal of water vapour effects from terahertz time-domain spectroscopy measurements

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 464, Issue 2097, 2008, Pages 2435-2456

  Withayachumnankul, Withawat ^a,b   Fischer, Bernd M ^a   Abbott, Derek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b KING MONGKUT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Rotational transitions; T rays; Terahertz; Terahertz time domain spectroscopy; Water vapour

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DEWATERING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GAS ABSORPTION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASMONS; REFLECTOMETERS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; RESONANCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AMBIENT WATERS; COMPLEX FREQUENCIES; DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUE (DT); DISCRETE FREQUENCIES; DISTORTION (DEFORMATION); EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FINE TUNING; GAS PHASE; MAIN PULSE; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; RAY PATHS; ROTATIONAL TRANSITIONS; SOME APPLICATIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC DATA; SPECTROSCOPIC FINGERPRINTS; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); TERAHERTZ (THZ) RADIATION; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY (THZ TDS); TIME DOMAIN (OCT); WATER MOLECULES; WATER VAPOUR;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 47749095939     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.0294     Document Type: Article

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