Analysis of atmospheric attenuation due to water content at 400 and 650 GHz

Author

Weber, Marcus J. ; Yang, Benjamin B. ; Kulie, Mark ; Bennartz, Ralf ; Booske, John H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

2-7 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

We present an experimental study of electromagnetic losses resulting from atmospheric absorption and scattering on terahertz (THz) radiation. A sealed, high-Q quasi-optical resonator system permits the determination of atmospheric attenuation, while also allowing for the measurement of water content within the system. The measured data is then compared with the predictive Millimeter-wave Propagation Model (MPM).

Keywords

millimetre wave propagation; resonators; terahertz waves; atmospheric absorption; atmospheric attenuation; atmospheric scattering; electromagnetic loss; frequency 400 GHz to 650 GHz; high-Q quasi-optical resonator system; millimeter-wave propagation; terahertz radiation; water content; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Attenuation; Attenuation measurement; Millimeter wave measurements; Sea measurements; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2011 36th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

ISSN

2162-2027

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0510-6

Electronic_ISBN

2162-2027

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/irmmw-THz.2011.6104815

Filename

6104815