Design of a Narrowband Filter for Implementing the Undersamping Method in Terahertz Time-Domain Spectrometers-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Design of a Narrowband Filter for Implementing the Undersamping Method in Terahertz Time-Domain Spectrometers

Published:2022-04-15 Issue:1 Volume:17 Page:78-92
ISSN:2541-9447
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Author:

Rybak A. A.¹^ORCID,Kuznetsov S. А.²^ORCID,Arzhannikov A. V.³^ORCID,Nikolaev N. A.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Novosibirsk State University; Institute of Automation and Electrometry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2. Novosibirsk State University; Institute of Automation and Electrometry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

3. Novosibirsk State University; Institute of Automation and Electrometry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a design of a narrow-band quasi-optical filter with a central frequency ν = 806 GHz (λ = 372 μm) suitable for the implementation of the undersampling technique in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. The frequency was chosen to monitor the absorption line of the molecular gas CO in the local transparency window of the atmosphere. The filter is designed as the Fabry-Perot etalon based on a polypropylene film with frequencyselective surfaces (FFS) on both sides consisting of square slots in a sprayed aluminum layer. Through numerical simulation of the transmission of the proposed structure, we defined that the optimum ratio of the width of the metal bridge a to the pitch g of the FSS lies in the vicinity of a/g = 0.5. For g less than half of the operating wavelength λ, the FWHM of the filter is less than 4%, which is sufficient for the implementation of the undersampling method in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.

Publisher

Novosibirsk State University (NSU)

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