Influence of raster scan parameters on the image quality for the THz phase imaging in collimated beam with a wide aperture

Abstract

We numerically investigated the influence of wavelength of terahertz radiation and size of scanning pinhole on the quality of reconstructed image by terahertz pulse time domain holography method. The improvement of the quality is achieved mainly by reducing the wavelength of the radiation, pinhole size and pinhole step (value of the pinhole displacement at each step) affect the spatial resolution of the reconstructed object and significantly affect the scanning time. However, pinhole does not significantly affect the quality only if pinhole size is not less than used wavelength.