Propagation characteristics of obliquely incident THz waves in inhomogeneous fully ionized dusty plasma using the scattering matrix method

Abstract

The scattering matrix method is applied to investigate the propagation characteristics of obliquely incident terahertz (THz) waves in inhomogeneous fully ionized dusty plasma. The propagation coefficients of THz waves are analyzed with different physical parameters in the case of parabolic electron density distribution. The results show that the transmissivity of lower frequency THz waves have a noticeable variation with the change of physical parameters. However, the transmissivity values can rapidly approach 1 in higher frequency band. We notice that there is a critical value fc≈0.045 THz. When f>fc, the transmissivity increases as the dust particles density and radius increase. However, it is somewhat opposite when f<fc. Significantly, the THz waves exhibit a greater propensity for penetrating fully ionized dusty plasma compared with the weakly ionized dusty plasma. To a certain degree, the investigation results provide new ideas for addressing the issue of “blackout”.