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Terahertz birefringence and attenuation properties of wood and paper
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The far-infrared properties of spruce wood are examined with a terahertz time-domain spectrometer. The solid wood is shown to exhibit both birefringence and diattenuation. The birefringence properties are sufficient for construction of a quarter-wave plate operating at 0.36 THz, and a half-wave plate operating at 0.71 THz. The origin of the birefringence is attributed to preferential fiber orientation within the wood. Similar birefringence is observed in lens paper in which the fibers are preferentially oriented in one direction.
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“It is expected that one can determine the wood fiber direction by observing the change of index refraction value as a function of angle between THz polarization and wood grain angle as Reid et al. [9] predicted the fiber direction of lens paper.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Reid, M., & Fedosejevs, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Northern British Columbia (CA)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- Venue
- Applied Optics
- Publisher
- Optica Publishing Group
- Published
- 2006-04-20
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 2766
- ISSN
- 0003-6935 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-4522
- OpenAlex
- W2120696652
- Cited by
- 118
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 5.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Applied Optics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Terahertz technology and applications
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry
- Keywords
- spruce wood, paper, diattenuation, quarter-wave plate, half-wave plate, fiber orientation, terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, far-infrared properties
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