Published April 9, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Propagation of Terahertz Radiation in Porous Polymer and Ceramic Materials

  • 1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 (United States)
  • 2. Research and Technology Development Center, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 (United States)

Description

In this work we investigate the propagation of terahertz radiation through polyurethane foam and porous alumina ceramics to understand the effects of structure on the optical properties of these materials at terahertz frequencies. A terahertz time domain system with a GaAs photoconductive emitter and a ZnTe electro-optic crystal was used to generate and detect the transmitted terahertz signal. Using the amplitude and phase characteristics of these signals, the thickness, index of refraction, and other physical and optical properties of the materials were determined

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
760
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 562-569
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
Conference on review of progress in quantitative nondestructive evaluation
Dates
25-30 Jul 2004
Place
Golden, CO (United States)

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(c) 2005 American Institute of Physics