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7 June 2024 Terahertz system characterization and performance modeling
Stephen D. Burks, Linda Marchese, David P. Haefner, Brian P. Teaney, Miles Cathers
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Abstract
Terahertz (THz) imaging systems use active sources, specialized optics, and detectors in order to penetrate through certain materials. Each of these components have design and manufacturing characteristics (e.g. coherence for sources, aberrations for optics, and dynamic range and noise in detectors) that can lead to a nonideal performance for the overall imaging system. Thus, system designers are frequently challenged to designs systems that approach theoretical performance, making quantitative measurement of imaging performance a key feedback element of system design. Quantitative evaluation of actual THz system performance will be performed using many of the same figures of merit that have been developed for imaging at other wavelengths (e.g. infrared imaging systems nominally operating in the shorter 3-12 μm wavelength range). The suitability and limitations of these evaluation criteria will be analyzed as part of the process for improving the modeling and design of high performance THz imaging systems.
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(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Stephen D. Burks, Linda Marchese, David P. Haefner, Brian P. Teaney, and Miles Cathers "Terahertz system characterization and performance modeling", Proc. SPIE 13045, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXXV, 130450Y (7 June 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3013105
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KEYWORDS
Imaging systems

Modulation transfer functions

Terahertz radiation

Performance modeling

Optical coherence

Design

Millimeter wave sensors

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