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Luke Peters
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Leverhulme trust Early Career Fellow, specialising in nonlinear photonics, terahertz generation and terahertz communications // Photonics100 Honouree 2025
Here is a very extreme example but shows a heavily misaligned signal for both the hole and without the hole case. Without the hole you still have a correct looking TDS and spectrum but with the hole it's a complete mess.
December 9, 2024 at 5:07 PM
If you know me in person you may know I have a rather strong dislike of using parabolics mirrors with holes as part of a THz-TDS setup.

Using a 9mm diameter Ti:sapphire regen here and standard thorlabs parabolic parameter with a RFL 4" here is a quick example of what happens to your beam.

#thz
December 9, 2024 at 4:35 PM