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2012
Journal Article
Title

Combination of Kramers-Kronig transform and time-domain methods for the determination of optical constants in THz spectroscopy

Abstract
Absorption and reflection spectra have successfully been used for substance identification, which is also applicable to the THz spectral range. For optical spectroscopy, the Kramers-Kronig transformation (KKT) is a powerful tool to determine the complex refractive index ñ (with k, n absorption and refractive indices, respectively) from either an absorption or reflection measurement. By terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) materials are probed with short pulses of radiation. The detection is sensitive to the sample on both the amplitude and the phase of the electrical field. Thus, THz-TDS spectroscopy can provide more information than conventional Fourier-transform spectroscopy, by which a power spectrum is measured. In the case of transmission measurements, for instance, formulae exist by which the frequency-dependent complex refractive index is directly calculated from the time-dependent electrical field (waveform) without the necessity of a KKT. In the case of reflection experiments, a comparable computation is possible for the frequency-dependent phase angle; here a KKT can help to recover essential parameters. We present a combination of KKT and TDS methods for the calculation of optical constants in the THz regime.
Author(s)
Herrmann, M.
Fraunhofer-Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik IPM  
Platte, F.
Nalpantidis, K.
Beigang, R.
Fraunhofer-Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik IPM  
Heise, H.M.
Journal
Vibrational spectroscopy  
DOI
10.1016/j.vibspec.2012.01.017
Language
English
Fraunhofer-Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik IPM  
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