Comparative Study of Material Parameter Extraction Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy in Transmission and in Reflection

摘要

As no terahertz signal is transmitted through opaque materials, reflection terahertz time-domain spectroscopy is obviously the dedicated setup. On the other hand, optical properties of transparent and thick samples are extracted more accurately with transmission terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. In this paper, we report the intrinsic frontier above or below which it is preferable to use either reflection or transmission setup for probing with the best accuracy possible a given sample.