The versatile terahertz reflection and transmission spectrometer with the location of objects of researches in the horizontal plane

The experimental setup of versatile pulse terahertz reflection and transmission spectrometer and operation concept were described. Using this setup the temporary forms of THz signal reflected from and transmitted through the samples like amino acids, dental tissue and normal were obtained. The possibility of structural determination of powdered media was demonstrated using this method

Generation of terahertz pulses with arbitrary elliptical polarization

We employ two different methods to generate controllable elliptical polarization of teraherz (THz) pulses. First, THz pulses are generated via optical rectification in nonlinear crystals using a pair of temporally separated and perpendicularly polarized optical pulses. The THz ellipticity is controlled by adjusting the relative time delay and polarization of the two optical pulses. We generate mixed polarization states of single-cycle THz pulses using ZnTe, and elliptically polarized multicycle THz pulses in periodically poled lithium niobate crystals. Second, we generate elliptically polarized THz pulses by making a THz “wave plate” using a combination of a wire-grid THz polarizer and a mirror to transform linearly polarized multicycle THz pulses into elliptical polarization.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/87838/2/221111_1.pd

Terahertz pulse shaping via optical rectification in poled lithium niobate

We demonstrate a technique for terahertz pulse shaping via optical rectification in the pre-engineered domain structure of poled lithium niobate crystals. The terahertz wave forms coincide with the crystal domain structures. The one-dimensional nonlinear wave equation simulates the experimental results with a good qualitative agreement

Generation of arbitrary terahertz wave forms in fanned-out periodically poled lithium niobate

The authors demonstrate a flexible terahertz pulse-shaping technique, manipulating spatially dispersed multifrequency components generated by optical rectification in a fanned-out periodically poled lithium niobate crystal. Spatial masks of low pass, high pass, and double slit in front of the crystal manipulate the spatial pattern of the optical excitation beam on the crystal, which is mapped onto the intensity profile of the terahertz spectrum. The spatial dispersion of the terahertz spectrum is removed by the line-to-point imaging of a spherical mirror.Article appears in Applied Physics Letters (http://apl.aip.org/) and is copyrighted by American Institute of Physics (http://www.aip.org/).Keywords: Lithium niobate, Terahertz wave form

Molecular cloning and expression of a novel human cDNA related to the diazepam binding inhibitor

AbstractIn order to isolate the unidentified autoantigens in autoimmune diabetes, a human pancreatic islet cDNA library was constructed and screened with the sera from the diabetic patients. From the library screening, one clone (DRS-1) that strongly reacted with the sera was isolated. Subsequent sequence analysis revealed that the clone was a novel cDNA related to the diazepam binding inhibitor. DRS-1 was expressed in most tissues including liver, lung, tonsil, and thymus, in addition to pancreatic islets. DRS-1 was in vitro translated and the recombinant DRS-1 protein was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified. The size of the in vitro translated or bacterially expressed DRS-1 protein was in agreement with the conceptually translated polypeptide of DRS-1 cDNA. Further studies are required to test whether or not DRS-1 is a new autoantigen in autoimmune diabetes