Cross polarization in swept beam THz imaging systems using off-axis parabolic mirrors
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2022
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2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022, Proceedings of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
Abstract
The optical behavior of a terahertz imaging system employing a train of four identical off-axis parabolic mirrors with oblique incidence angle illumination is investigated in this work. The aperture filling and aberrations of a single off-axis parabolic mirror when illuminated by a Gaussian terahertz beam at its focus point is measured and simulated. The amplitude of E-field in transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarizations at target plane reveals a significant cross polarization, even when there is zero cross polarization at the source beam, amplitude of which is ∼ 33% of TE polarization. The investigation of the E-field on the detector plane reveals that this ratio is ∼ 1.5% at the detector plane, and the cross polarized E-field at the target plane is rotated back to co polarization. Although its amplitude is negligible, the TM distribution at detector plane is bimodal and tilted about the optical axis.Description
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off-axis parabolic mirror, polarization, sub-millimeter wave, THz
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Rezapoor, P, Tamminen, A, Nefedova, I, Ala-Laurinaho, J, Llombart, N, Rodilla, H, Stake, J & Taylor, Z 2022, Cross polarization in swept beam THz imaging systems using off-axis parabolic mirrors . in 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022 . Proceedings of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Madrid, Spain, 27/03/2022 . https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP53622.2022.9769500
