著者
Hattori Toshiaki Sakamoto Masaya
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Applied physics letters (ISSN:00036951)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.90, no.26, pp.261106, 2007-06-25
被引用文献数
16

The authors have developed a method of real-time terahertz imaging in which image deformation due to nonuniformity of residual birefringence in the electro-optic (EO) sampling crystal is corrected. Real-time terahertz imaging using intense terahertz pulses and two-dimensional EO sampling can suffer from birefringence nonuniformity of the EO crystal since the birefringence is explicitly used for the linear detection of the terahertz field. In the proposed method, the distribution of the residual birefringence of the EO crystal is measured and used for image correction. Deformation-free images of the spatial profile of a focused terahertz pulse were obtained.