Optical thickness of a plant leaf measured with THz pulse echoes Auteur(s): Abautret Yannick, Coquillat D., Zerrad Myriam, Bendoula Ryad, Soriano Gabriel, Heran Daphne, Grezes-Besset Bruno, Chazallet Frédéric, Amra Claude
Conference: TERAHERTZ, RF, MILLIMETER, AND SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS XIII, 2020 (San Francisco, US, 2020) Ref HAL: hal-02978005_v1 DOI: 10.1117/12.2543710 WoS: WOS:000576674300010 Exporter : BibTex | endNote Résumé: We analyze Terahertz (THz) echoes by reflection on a sunflower leaf in order to evaluate the internal leaf structure (geometry, complex indices and thicknesses). The analysis is based on the thin film multilayer formalism in time and frequency domains. A high agreement is emphasized between experiment and theory, and we evaluate how realistic the multilayer solution can be in regard to our knowledge related to the sunflower leaf. A test campaign is performed in Charles Coulomb laboratory, which is equipped with the THz spectrometer. |