THz Prisms

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Tydex offers THz prisms of the following configurations:

- conventional (right angle) prisms. This type of prism is used in optical schemes.
- attenuated total reflectance (ATR) prisms. Such special prisms allow investigating materials which are difficult to analyze in transmission.

Absorption spectroscopy of materials with intensive absorption becomes practically impossible because of intensive absorption and Fresnel reflection. In this case the most suitable method of investigation absorbing materials is method of frustrated total internal reflection. Such method is based on the effect of reducing of reflection coefficient of radiation from interface between high refractive index medium n₀ and absorbing medium with less refractive index n at the angle of incidence that exceeds the critical angle: Θc=arcsin(n/n₀). Value of reflection coefficient depends on the angle of radiation incidence, radiation polarization as well as refractive index of the sample. Right choice of prism parameters (specifically base angle of the prism) allows obtaining good ATR spectrum. Method of frustrated total internal reflection in THz range allows investigating materials with absorption coefficients from 10² to 10⁴ cm^-1.

Material	HRFZ-Si, ZEONEX
Dimension tolerance, mm	+ /-0.2
Angle tolerance, arc. min	+/-30
Surface quality polished surfaces, scr/dig	80/50
Surface quality of ground surfaces, Ra	2.5
Surface accuracy, mm	+/- 0.01 deviation from ideal plane