The use of liquid-core optical fiber transmission terahertz

Author

Zhou, Lei ; Xu, Weiwei ; Lu, Xuehui ; Chen, Jian ; Jin, Biaobing ; Kang, Llin ; Wu, Peiheng

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. of Supercond. Electron. (RISE), Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Using the method of time-domain spectroscopy, we measure the absorption and dispersion of several non-polar organic solvents from 0.2 to 2.5 THz. Based on the result, we believe liquid paraffin might be a proper choice for the core material of THz liquid-core fiber when Teflon is used as cladding material. Transmitting performance of THz liquid-core fiber at 98 GHz is tested.

Keywords

light absorption; light transmission; microwave photonics; optical fibre cladding; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre testing; terahertz spectroscopy; Teflon; absorption measurement; cladding material; dispersion measurement; fiber testing; frequency 0.2 THz to 2.5 THz; frequency 98 GHz; liquid paraffin; nonpolar organic solvents; terahertz liquid-core optical fiber transmission; time-domain spectroscopy; Absorption; Optical fibers; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Photoconducting materials; Power transmission lines; Pulse measurements; Refractive index; Submillimeter wave technology; Superconducting transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2009. IRMMW-THz 2009. 34th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5416-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5417-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2009.5324666

Filename

5324666