Monday, June 6, 2016

Abstract-Essential Limitations of the Standard THz TDS Method for Substance Detection and Identification and a Way of Overcoming Them




Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory, Moscow 119992, Russia
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Low efficiency of the standard THz TDS method of the detection and identification of substances based on a comparison of the spectrum for the signal under investigation with a standard signal spectrum is demonstrated using the physical experiments conducted under real conditions with a thick paper bag as well as with Si-based semiconductors under laboratory conditions. In fact, standard THz spectroscopy leads to false detection of hazardous substances in neutral samples, which do not contain them. This disadvantage of the THz TDS method can be overcome by using time-dependent THz pulse spectrum analysis. For a quality assessment of the standard substance spectral features presence in the signal under analysis, one may use time-dependent integral correlation criteria.

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