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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 229-235Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/36/3/303
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Studies using a terahertz (THz) imaging system have shown that focused THz electromagnetic pulses exhibit a ring-like spatial intensity distribution. In the study, almost half-cycle THz pulses were generated from a large-aperture photoconductive antenna and focused by an off-axis parabolic mirror. Time-resolved spatial distribution of the THz electric field on the focal plane was found to form a ring before and after the time region where a single peak is formed around the time origin. On the other hand, with the delay time fixed at the origin, the field distribution was also found to exhibit a ring-like profile at positions away from the focal plane. Existence of relatively low-frequency components in the power spectrum of the THz field gives these observable phenomena. Numerical simulations using diffraction integral calculations reproduced the observed features. A simpler numerical analysis based on the Gaussian beam approximation was shown to yield the observed features and also predicted the dependence on the beam parameters.
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