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Inspired by the design concept of negative curvature hollow-core fibers, this paper presents an innovative negative curvature suspended-core THz fiber. Compared to traditional suspended-core fibers, all structural units of this fiber are…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-04 Jing Deng , Lei Fan , Qichao Hou , Xingfang luo , Chun-Fang Rao , Yuan-Feng Zhu

The advancement of 3D-printing opens up a new way of constructing affordable custom terahertz (THz) components due to suitable printing resolution and THz transparency of polymer materials. We present a way of calculating, designing and…

Using metasurfaces to control the wave propagation at will has been very successful over the broad electromagnetic spectrum in recent years. By encoding specially designed abrupt changes of electromagnetic parameters into metasurfaces, such…

In this paper, we develop an accurate and efficient framework for computing subwavelength guided modes in high-contrast periodic media with line defects, based on a tight-binding approximation. The physical problem is formulated as an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Habib Ammari , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Ping Liu , Borui Miao , Yi Zhu

We discuss a simple, linear, zero-delay implementation of spectral shearing interferometry for amplitude and phase characterization of optical frequency comb sources and arbitrary waveforms. We demonstrate this technique by characterizing…

Terahertz (THz) channel propagation characteristics are vital for the design, evaluation, and optimization for THz communication systems. Moreover, reflection plays a significant role in channel propagation. In this letter, the reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Zhaowei Chang , Jianhua Zhang , Pan Tang , Lei Tian , Li Yu , Guangyi Liu , Liang Xia

The paper presents algorithms to realize effectively and accurately the stepped-frequency waveform reflectometry (SFWR), i.e. the reflectometric technique based on the use of sinusoidal bursts. This technique is useful for monitoring the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Nicola Giaquinto , Marco Scarpetta , Maurizio Spadavecchia

The design of high-precision sensing devises becomes ever more difficult and expensive. At the same time, the need for precise calibration of these devices (ranging from tiny sensors to space telescopes) manifests itself as a major…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Shuyang Ling , Thomas Strohmer

We perform broadband phase sensitive measurements of the reflection coefficient from 45 MHz up to 20 GHz employing a vector network analyzer with a 2.4 mm coaxial sensor which is terminated by the sample under test. While the material…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-12 Elvira Ritz , Martin Dressel

At a horizontally homogeneous isothermal atmosphere approximation, we derive an ordinary six-order differential equation describing linear disturbances with consideration for heat conductivity and viscosity of medium. The wave problem may…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 G. V. Rudenko

We present a semi-analytic method to calculate the dispersion curves and the group velocity of photonic crystal waveguide modes in two-dimensional geometries. We model the waveguide as a homogenous strip, surrounded by photonic crystal…

The problem of the emergence of wave dispersion due to the heterogeneity of a transmission line (TL) is considered. An exactly solvable model helps to better understand the physical process of a signal passing through a non-uniform section…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 A. B. Shvartsburg , S. N. Artekha , N. S. Artekha

Terahertz (THz) technology is promising in several applications such as imaging, spectroscopy and communications. Among several methods in the generation and detection of THz waves, a THz time domain system (TDS) that is developed using…

Wavefront sensing involves estimating the phase and intensity of light, enabling a wide range of imaging applications, from adaptive optics and astronomy to biomedical imaging. Since conventional image sensors can only measure the spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Nebiyou Yismaw , Vishwanath Saragadam , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , M. Salman Asif

Terahertz (THz) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) offers high-speed communication alongside precise environmental sensing. This paper presents a computationally efficient framework for THz-based environment reconstruction by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Zitong Fang , Yejian Lyu , Ziming Yu , Chong Han

Terahertz frequencies are an untapped resource for providing high-speed short-range communications. As a result, it is of interest to study the propagation characteristics of terahertz waves and to develop channel models. In previous work…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Thanh Le , Ha Tran , Suresh Singh

HERA is a highly-redundant transit interferometer with 14\,m-diameter parabolic dish elements. We exploit the fact that the Galactic centre transits through the main beam of the telescope to attempt a conventional self-calibration approach…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-18 Bojan Nikolic , Chris Carilli , HERA Collaboration

Real-time measurement of the absolute frequency of continuous-wave terahertz (CW-THz) waves is required for characterization and frequency calibration of practical CW-THz sources. We proposed a method for real-time monitoring of the…

A novel balanced air-biased coherent detection scheme for capturing ultrabroadband terahertz (THz) waveforms is implemented. The balanced detection scheme allows for coherent detection at the full repetition rate of the laser system without…

THz radiation is more and more commonplace in research laboratories as well as in everyday life, with applications ranging from body scanners at airport security to short range wireless communications. In the optical domain, waveguides and…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-07 Alessio Stefani , Simon C. Fleming , Boris T. Kuhlmey