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This paper reports the far-distance achievable reflected paths of indoor material groups such as glass, wood, paper , and plastic at frequencies ranging from 270 GHz to 330 GHz. A VNA equipped with ~ 25.45 dBi horn antenna as transceiver is employed to retrieve and evaluate these reflections. The beam spot size illuminated by the horn antenna from a distance of interest to the material under test (MUT) is aforethought and considered during the channel sounding. Thus, approximately 14.4 m long reflections are detected. The knowledge of the reflective properties of indoor building materials is virtuous in terms of facilitating propagation modeling and design of efficient future indoor wireless systems at terahertz (THz) frequencies. The results obtained taking into account the beam spot size are the first ever published.

One-dimensional Photonic Crystal (1D PhC) resonator is recently introduced as a good nominee to replace conventional tags at mm-wave and THz bands. For a use of such tags as landmarks in mm-wave indoor self-localization systems, an augmentation of their RCS is required to improve the reading range. As a solution, we propose the integration of a 1D PhC resonator with a dielectric lens (i.e. frequency coded lenses). This concept is demonstrated by locating a 1D PhC resonator in the focal area of a spherical dielectric lens made of PolyPropylene (PP) material with a relative permittivity of 2.0. On the other hand, the PhC resonator is designed by introducing a defect layer between two quarter-wave Bragg mirrors in order to produce a notch signature in the backscattering. Two frequency coded lenses of 24 mm and 40 mm diameter are simulated, fabricated, and experimentally examined. Results show that these coded lenses can achieve 9 dB and 14 dB improvement in RCS, respectively.

To achieve 1 Tb/s wireless links considering simplified modulation schemes, that are in short-range and at terahertz (THz) frequencies, the quest for overwhelming extreme bandwidths is self-evident. In this paper, we analyze the channel performance and limitations of THz communication systems at 300 GHz carrier frequency due to the horn-antenna beam misalignment in line-of-sight (LoS) scenario. Firstly, a ray-tracer is employed to examine the implications of beam spot size for varied distances. Then, these effects are studied in terms of link coverage and the achievable data rates when altering the antenna positions horizontally and vertically. A VNA-based 300 GHz transmission system is used to experimentally validate the above mentioned implications in terms of distance and antenna positions. Finally, the impact of beam spot size is studied by rotating the antennas. To the best of our knowledge, this work reports the first ever recorded implications of beam spot size on the THz wireless links.

In radar systems, the frequency range is being extended to high frequencies such as THz for sub-mm resolution. The spectrum offers high resolution but on the contrary, propagation distance and penetration depth are limited because of smaller wavelength. It suffers from higher atmospheric absorption in comparison to sub-GHz systems. In comparison to optical technology, the radar technique majorly benefits with respect to the penetration property such as cloud/smoke cover penetration and detection of concealed objects. However, the THz range and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of concealed objects are not very well established. Therefore, this paper examines this property at THz. A testbed has been set up with a bandwidth of 110 GHz at a carrier frequency of 275 GHz. The imaging is performed of a very small metal object. Firstly, the sub-mm resolution is validated with the experiment after that the range and SAR imaging are performed in which this object is covered with different types of materials. The backscattered data is processed with the image reconstruction algorithms and the results are presented in this paper with respect to sub-mm resolution and detection. © 2020 IEEE.

Channel measurements across 300 GHz to 310 GHz spectrum are performed to realize the ultra-broadband wireless communication channel behaviour for various channel configurations in lecture room environment. At terahertz (THz) frequencies, it is believed that high directional antenna based line-of-sight (LoS) communication possibly achieves terabitper-second (Tbps) links. Thereupon, the VNA-based channel measurements are performed using 26 dBi horn antennas at both the transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) sides for retrieving the channel parameters (i.e., path loss exponent, shadowing factor) to derive the single-slope path loss model in LoS scenario for distances up to 5 m. Moreover, the results are also evaluated with waveguide antenna (open) for horn-open, and open-open configurations to estimate the propagation losses for different antenna directivities. So far, the results from such a long-distance channel measurement campaign are not recorded yet.