This text investigates THz-TDS signals in the time-frequency domain. Addi- tionally this text discusses the prospects of using time-frequency analysis to alleviate distortion in THz spectrographic characterizations induced by back- reflections in the free space electro optic sampling used in the THz time-domain spectroscopy detection scheme. THz time domain spectroscopy is a technique for characterization of materials in the terahertz regime. The THz regime offers interesting properties of materials such as strong phonon-photon interaction and resonances for vibration states of molecules. Three time-frequency representations are compared for the analysis of the time-domain signal, the short-time Fourier transform, the Wigner-Ville transform and the continuous wavelet transform. It is concluded that the Wigner-Ville transform is most suited for analysis of the spectral properties of a single pulse due to the Wigner-Ville transforms inherit high spectral resolution. The continuous wavelet transform is most suited for analysis of the time-domain signal since it has no cross-term interference as compared to the Wigner-Ville transform. By masking the continuous wavelet transform with a Lorentzian time-frequency mask the back-reflections are dampened and the resolution of the characterization is improved.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-357416 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Laurell, Hugo |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för systemteknik, Department of Electronic Systems, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, NTNU |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | UPTEC F, 1401-5757 ; 18037 |
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