23 August 2021 Design and investigation of terahertz hollow-core Bragg waveguide with axial periodic bridges
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Abstract

A terahertz (THz) hollow-core Bragg waveguide constructed by cascading waveguide units with supporting bridges (SPBs) on different air rings is proposed. The influence of the SPBs on the transmission loss of the waveguide is demonstrated numerically. Results show that the SPBs in the first air ring play the most important role in the transmission loss. By reasonably selecting the length ratio of the waveguide units, the waveguide absorption loss can be reduced to less than 0.4  dB  /  m in a wide bandwidth range of 0.53 to 0.73 THz, which is at least 2 orders lower than the material absorption loss.

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Tong-tong Bai, Yuan-Feng Zhu, Ming-Yang Chen, and Hang Xu "Design and investigation of terahertz hollow-core Bragg waveguide with axial periodic bridges," Optical Engineering 60(8), 086105 (23 August 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.60.8.086105
Received: 3 March 2021; Accepted: 10 August 2021; Published: 23 August 2021
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KEYWORDS
Waveguides

Terahertz radiation

Absorption

Bridges

3D printing

Cladding

Optical engineering

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