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  • Optics and Photonics
  • Materials Science
  • Non-destructive Testing

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  • Current non-invasive imaging faces challenges with spatial resolution, spectral contrast, and occlusion in complex samples.
  • Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) offers unique temporal and spectral resolution capabilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a computational method using THz-TDS to overcome occlusion in layered materials.
  • To extract occluding content from layers with subwavelength or wavelength-comparable thicknesses.
  • To enhance signal contrast for improved non-destructive inspection.

Main Methods:

  • Exploiting sub-picosecond time resolution and spectral resolution of THz-TDS.
  • Utilizing statistics of reflected terahertz electric fields at subwavelength gaps to identify layer positions.
  • Applying time-gated spectral kurtosis for optimal spectral contrast tuning within specific layers.

Main Results:

  • Successfully extracted occluding textual content from a stack of nine paper pages without human supervision.
  • Achieved over an order of magnitude enhancement in signal contrast.
  • Demonstrated the method's potential for inspecting materials with subwavelength or wavelength-comparable layers.

Conclusions:

  • The developed THz-TDS method effectively extracts occluded content from complex layered structures.
  • This technique significantly improves signal contrast for non-invasive inspection.
  • Potential applications include defect detection in wood, plastics, composites, drugs, and cultural artifacts.