Terajet effect of dielectric sphere and THz imaging

Qingshan Qu; Hailing Liu; Di Zhu; Menghan Yang; Bin Cui; Shuai Feng; Yuping Yang

doi:10.1117/12.2500909

9 November 2018 Terajet effect of dielectric sphere and THz imaging

Qingshan Qu, Hailing Liu, Di Zhu, Menghan Yang, Bin Cui, Shuai Feng, Yuping Yang

Proceedings Volume 10826, Infrared, Millimeter-Wave, and Terahertz Technologies V; 1082606 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2500909
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2018, Beijing, China

Abstract

Analogous to microsphere optical nanoscope, an easy and low-price method of THz imaging is proposed and developed for improving the spatial resolution beyond the diffraction limit. By attaching a 2-4 mm diameter Teflon sphere, a narrow, high-intensity, subdiffraction-waist THz beam with a strong jet-like distribution propagates into the background medium from the sphere’s shadow-side surface and a subwavelength spatial resolution better than λ/3 is demonstrated. Furthermore, the dielectric sphere-coupled THz microscope not only enables far-field, large-area measurement but also characterizes high-throughput and broad-band imaging properties. In addition, the size effect on terajet of dielectric sphere was simulated and shows that its magnification capability and focal length are size-dependent and frequencysensitive.

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Qingshan Qu, Hailing Liu, Di Zhu, Menghan Yang, Bin Cui, Shuai Feng, and Yuping Yang "Terajet effect of dielectric sphere and THz imaging", Proc. SPIE 10826, Infrared, Millimeter-Wave, and Terahertz Technologies V, 1082606 (9 November 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2500909

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