Title :
On the way to an active terahertz camera: Optic design and its experimental verification
Author :
am Weg, C. ; May, T. ; Hils, Bernd ; Löffler, Torsten ; Roskos, Hartmut G.
Author_Institution :
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Univ., Frankfurt am Main
Abstract :
We report on the simulation of a terahertz optics setup with the commercial, optic-design software package Zemax. We show that the analysis of both diffraction and abberation effects are well corroborated by the experimental results.
Keywords :
optical design techniques; optics; software packages; submillimetre wave imaging; Zemax; active terahertz camera; optic design; optic-design software package; terahertz optics; Apertures; Cameras; Image resolution; Mirrors; Optical design; Optical diffraction; Optical distortion; Optical imaging; Spatial resolution; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2007 and the 2007 15th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics. IRMMW-THz. Joint 32nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cardiff
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1438-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICIMW.2007.4516531