阅读说明：本技术 一种远距离高分辨率三反太赫兹准光系统 (Remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system ) 是由 魏武强 顾大勇 何建安 涂昊 于 2021-05-06 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种远距离高分辨率三反太赫兹准光系统,属于毫米波太赫兹成像领域,包括太赫兹发射链路、太赫兹接收链路、分束镜、发射喇叭天线、接收喇叭天线、第一单焦点曲面镜、水平摆镜、竖直摆镜、第二单焦点曲面镜、双焦点曲面镜、两个转动驱动件。本发明通过水平摆镜和竖直摆镜的配合,可实现对远场成像区域的扫描,获得远场成像区域的太赫兹回波信号,结合信号处理技术,实现对远场的高分辨率成像；同时缩小了摆镜的尺寸,通过修改镜面的尺寸、曲率等参数,可以实现在不同距离远场处的高分辨率成像,可以广泛应用于各种远距离安检场所,实现快速、文明、可视化、实时、抗干扰的安检效果,值得被推广使用。(The invention discloses a remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system, which belongs to the field of millimeter wave terahertz imaging and comprises a terahertz transmitting link, a terahertz receiving link, a beam splitter, a transmitting horn antenna, a receiving horn antenna, a first single-focus curved mirror, a horizontal swing mirror, a vertical swing mirror, a second single-focus curved mirror, a bifocal curved mirror and two rotary driving pieces. According to the invention, through the matching of the horizontal swing mirror and the vertical swing mirror, the scanning of a far field imaging area can be realized, the terahertz echo signal of the far field imaging area is obtained, and the high-resolution imaging of the far field is realized by combining a signal processing technology; meanwhile, the size of the swing mirror is reduced, high-resolution imaging at far fields with different distances can be realized by modifying parameters such as the size and the curvature of the mirror surface, the swing mirror can be widely applied to various remote security inspection places, the quick, civilized, visual, real-time and anti-interference security inspection effect is realized, and the swing mirror is worthy of being popularized and used.)

1. A long-distance high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system is characterized in that: the terahertz transmission device comprises a terahertz transmission link, a terahertz receiving link, a beam splitter, a transmission horn antenna, a receiving horn antenna, a first single-focus curved mirror, a horizontal swing mirror, a vertical swing mirror, a second single-focus curved mirror, a bifocal curved mirror and a rotary driving piece;

the transmitting horn antenna is connected with the output port of the terahertz transmitting link; the receiving horn antenna is connected with the input port of the terahertz receiving link; the transmitting horn antenna is arranged at the focus position of the first single-focus curved mirror; the aperture direction intersection point of the transmitting horn antenna and the receiving horn antenna and the three points of the transmitting horn antenna and the receiving horn antenna form an isosceles right triangle, wherein the intersection point is the intersection point of right-angle positions; the center of the beam splitter is positioned on the intersection point, and the mirror surface of the beam splitter is arranged on the angular bisector of the right angle; the first single-focus curved mirror, the horizontal swing mirror, the vertical swing mirror, the second single-focus curved mirror and the bifocal curved mirror are sequentially arranged from bottom to top, and terahertz waves emitted by the terahertz emission link through the emission horn antenna are sequentially reflected to a far field imaging area according to the arrangement sequence of the mirror surfaces from bottom to top; echo signals in a far-field imaging area are sequentially reflected to a beam splitter according to the mirror arrangement sequence from top to bottom, and are reflected to a receiving horn antenna through the beam splitter, and the terahertz receiving link is used for receiving the signals; the horizontal swing mirror and the vertical swing mirror are respectively connected with the rotary driving piece.

2. The remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system according to claim 1, wherein: the terahertz quasi-optical system further comprises a plurality of supporting structures, and the terahertz transmitting link, the terahertz receiving link, the beam splitter, the first single-focus curved mirror, the second single-focus curved mirror, the bifocal curved mirror and the rotary driving piece are correspondingly connected with the supporting structures.

3. The remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system according to claim 1, wherein: the terahertz transmission link is a first frequency doubling link and is used for doubling the frequency of a low-frequency signal to a terahertz signal.

4. The remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system according to claim 1, wherein: the terahertz receiving link comprises a second frequency doubling link and a frequency mixing link which are sequentially connected, the second frequency doubling link is used for doubling the frequency of a low-frequency signal to a terahertz local oscillator signal, and the frequency mixing link is used for performing down-conversion processing on a terahertz echo signal and the terahertz local oscillator signal to obtain the low-frequency signal.

5. The remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system according to claim 1, wherein: the terahertz emission signal penetrates through one surface of the beam splitter, and the terahertz echo signal is reflected on the other surface of the beam splitter.

6. The remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system according to claim 1, wherein: the first single focus curved mirror is provided with a focus which is the position of the transmitting horn antenna, and the first single focus curved mirror is used for reflecting and focusing the parallel wave beams to one point and converting the wave beams emitted from the single point into the parallel wave beams.

7. The remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system according to claim 1, wherein: the horizontal oscillating mirror is a plane reflecting mirror and is used for rotating the direction of the parallel beams in the horizontal direction to realize the scanning of the beams in the horizontal direction.

8. The remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system according to claim 1, wherein: the vertical oscillating mirror is a plane reflecting mirror and is used for rotating the direction of the parallel beams in the vertical direction to realize the scanning of the beams in the vertical direction.

9. The remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system according to claim 1, wherein: the second single focus curved mirror has a focus between the second single focus curved mirror and the bifocal curved mirror for reflectively focusing a parallel beam to a point and converting the beam emitted from the single point into a parallel beam.

10. The remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system according to claim 1, wherein: the bifocal curved mirror has two foci, one of which coincides with the focus of the second monofocal curved mirror, the other of which lies in the imaging plane.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of millimeter wave terahertz imaging, in particular to a remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system.

Background

At present, in the field of public security, a short-distance metal door and manual search still occupies the mainstream security inspection mode, and the security inspection method is low in security inspection speed and has certain human body invasion problems for inspected persons. On the basis, various human body imaging security inspection systems have appeared in recent years, and are mainly divided into a passive terahertz security inspection imaging system, an active millimeter wave imaging system and an X-ray human body imaging security inspection system.

The passive terahertz security inspection imaging system passively receives terahertz waves emitted by a human body, the imaging distance of the passive terahertz security inspection imaging system is generally not more than three meters, the passive terahertz security inspection imaging system is easily interfered by external temperature, and the system is large in size; the active millimeter wave imaging system has the advantages of high resolution and interference resistance, but the imaging distance is generally controlled within one meter; the X-ray human body imaging security inspection system utilizes X-rays to radiate a human body, causes serious injury to the human body and has a short imaging distance. The above-mentioned problems need to be solved, and therefore, a long-distance high-resolution tri-reflective terahertz quasi-optical system is proposed.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem to be solved by the invention is as follows: how to solve the problem that the anti-jamming capability of the existing terahertz security inspection imaging system is poor, and the like, a remote high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system is provided.

The terahertz transmission link comprises a terahertz transmission link, a terahertz receiving link, a beam splitter, a transmission horn antenna, a receiving horn antenna, a first single-focus curved mirror, a horizontal swing mirror, a vertical swing mirror, a second single-focus curved mirror, a double-focus curved mirror and two rotary driving pieces;

the transmitting horn antenna is connected with the output port of the terahertz transmitting link; the receiving horn antenna is connected with the input port of the terahertz receiving link; the transmitting horn antenna is arranged at the focus position of the first single-focus curved mirror; the aperture direction intersection point of the transmitting horn antenna and the receiving horn antenna and the three points of the transmitting horn antenna and the receiving horn antenna form an isosceles right triangle, wherein the intersection point is the intersection point of right-angle positions; the center of the beam splitter is positioned on the intersection point, and the mirror surface of the beam splitter is arranged on the angular bisector of the right angle; the first single-focus curved mirror, the horizontal swing mirror, the vertical swing mirror, the second single-focus curved mirror and the bifocal curved mirror are sequentially arranged from bottom to top, and terahertz waves emitted by the terahertz emission link through the emission horn antenna are sequentially reflected to a far field imaging area according to the arrangement sequence of the mirror surfaces from bottom to top; echo signals in a far-field imaging area are sequentially reflected to a beam splitter according to the mirror arrangement sequence from top to bottom, and are reflected to a receiving horn antenna through the beam splitter, and the terahertz receiving link is used for receiving the signals; the horizontal swing mirror and the vertical swing mirror are respectively connected with one of the rotary driving pieces.

Furthermore, the terahertz quasi-optical system further comprises a plurality of supporting structures, and the terahertz transmitting link, the terahertz receiving link, the beam splitter, the first single-focus curved mirror, the second single-focus curved mirror, the bifocal curved mirror and the rotary driving member are correspondingly connected with the supporting structures.

Furthermore, the terahertz transmission link is a first frequency doubling link and is used for doubling the frequency of the low-frequency signal to the terahertz signal.

Furthermore, the terahertz receiving link comprises a second frequency doubling link and a frequency mixing link which are sequentially connected, the second frequency doubling link is used for doubling the frequency of the low-frequency signal to the terahertz local oscillator signal, and the frequency mixing link is used for performing down-conversion processing on the terahertz echo signal and the terahertz local oscillator signal to obtain the low-frequency signal.

Furthermore, the terahertz emission signal penetrates through one surface of the beam splitter, and the terahertz echo signal is reflected on the other surface of the beam splitter.

Furthermore, the first single focus curved mirror has a focus, which is the position of the transmitting horn antenna, and the first single focus curved mirror is used for reflecting and focusing the parallel beam to a point and converting the beam emitted from the single point into the parallel beam.

Furthermore, the horizontal oscillating mirror is a plane mirror, and is used for rotating the direction of the parallel beam in the horizontal direction, so as to realize the scanning of the beam in the horizontal direction.

Furthermore, the vertical oscillating mirror is a plane mirror and is used for rotating the direction of the parallel beam in the vertical direction to realize the scanning of the beam in the vertical direction.

Further, the second single focus curved mirror has a focal point between the second single focus curved mirror and the bifocal curved mirror for reflectively focusing the parallel beam to a point and converting the beam emitted from the single point into a parallel beam.

Furthermore, the bifocal curved mirror has two focal points, one of which coincides with the focal point of the second single-focal curved mirror, and the other of which lies in the imaging plane.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages: according to the long-distance high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system, the horizontal swing mirror and the vertical swing mirror are matched, so that a far field imaging area can be scanned, a terahertz echo signal of the far field imaging area is obtained, and high-resolution imaging of a far field is realized by combining a signal processing technology; meanwhile, the size of the swing mirror is reduced, high-resolution imaging at far fields with different distances can be realized by modifying parameters such as the size and the curvature of the mirror surface, the swing mirror can be widely applied to various remote security inspection places, the quick, civilized, visual, real-time and anti-interference security inspection effect is realized, and the swing mirror is worthy of being popularized and used.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a diagram of a long-distance high-resolution triple-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a complete optical path diagram of a long-distance high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system in the embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a partial optical path diagram of a long-distance high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system in an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a scanning trace diagram of a long-distance high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of a swing mirror and an axis thereof of a remote high-resolution tri-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system in an embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

The following examples are given for the detailed implementation and specific operation of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following examples.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3, the present embodiment provides a technical solution: the utility model provides a long-distance high resolution three anti-terahertz quasi-optical system now, includes terahertz transmission link, terahertz receiving link, beam splitter 6, transmission horn antenna, receiving horn antenna, first single focus curved mirror 1, horizontal pendulum mirror 2, vertical pendulum mirror 3, second single focus curved mirror 4, bifocal curved mirror 5, a plurality of bearing structure and the supporting motor module of pendulum mirror, wherein bearing structure and the supporting motor module of pendulum mirror are not drawn in the picture.

The transmitting horn antenna is connected with the output port of the terahertz transmitting link; the receiving horn antenna is connected with the input port of the terahertz receiving link; the transmitting horn antenna is positioned at the focus position of the first single-focus curved mirror 1; the aperture direction intersection point of the transmitting horn antenna and the receiving horn antenna and the three points of the transmitting horn antenna and the receiving horn antenna form an isosceles right triangle, wherein the intersection point is the intersection point of right-angle positions; the center of the beam splitter 6 is positioned on the intersection point, and the mirror surface of the beam splitter 6 is arranged on the angular bisector of the right angle; the terahertz transmission link is sequentially reflected to a far field imaging area through terahertz waves emitted by the transmission horn antenna according to the arrangement sequence of the mirror surfaces from bottom to top; echo signals in a far-field imaging area are sequentially reflected to the beam splitter 6 according to the mirror arrangement sequence from top to bottom, and are reflected to the receiving horn antenna through the beam splitter 6, and signal receiving is realized through the terahertz receiving link; the horizontal swing mirror 2 and the vertical swing mirror 3 swing through the matched motor module, so that the track scanning of a focusing point is realized in a far field, and the imaging of the whole surface is realized; each mirror surface and the matched motor module are fixed on the supporting structure;

in this example, the terahertz transmission link is a frequency doubling link, which can frequency-double a low-frequency signal to a terahertz signal, the output frequency includes 330GHz, 660GHz, 1THz, etc., and the output has a wider frequency bandwidth including frequency bandwidths of 10GHz, 20GHz, 30GHz, etc., in this example, the center frequency is 660GHz, and the bandwidth is 30 GHz;

in this example, the terahertz receiving link includes a frequency doubling link and a frequency mixing link, and the terahertz receiving link can frequency-double a low-frequency signal to a terahertz local oscillator signal, and simultaneously can down-convert a terahertz echo signal and the terahertz local oscillator signal to obtain a low-frequency signal;

in this example, one side of the beam splitter 6 can transmit, and the other side can reflect, which allows the terahertz transmission signal to penetrate, but the terahertz echo signal cannot penetrate, which allows the terahertz echo signal to reflect, thereby realizing the separation of the terahertz transmission signal and the terahertz echo signal, and also selecting a module having the same function, such as an OMT (orthogonal mode coupler, which can realize the separation after the transmission signal and the reception signal), and the like, for substitution.

In this example, the transmitting horn antenna is used for externally radiating a terahertz transmitting signal, has a specific beam width and gain, and can be selected according to the requirements of the whole system;

in this example, the receiving horn antenna is used for receiving the terahertz echo signal externally, has a specific beam width and gain, and can be selected and matched according to the requirements of the whole system;

in this example, the first single focus curved mirror 1 has a focus at the position of the transmitting horn antenna, which is used to reflect and focus the parallel beam to one point, and also to convert the beam emitted from one point into parallel beam;

in this example, the horizontal oscillating mirror 2 is a plane mirror, and functions to rotate the direction of the parallel beam in the horizontal direction, so as to scan the beam in the horizontal direction, wherein the horizontal oscillating mirror 2 is completely scanned once and slowly oscillates once in this example;

in this example, the vertical oscillating mirror 3 is a plane mirror, is mounted on the matching motor module, and has the function of rotating the direction of the parallel beam in the vertical direction to scan the beam in the vertical direction, and the vertical oscillating mirror 3 swings up and down rapidly;

in this example, the second single focus curved mirror 4 has a focus between the second single focus curved mirror 4 and the bifocal curved mirror 5, which functions to reflect and focus the parallel beam to a point and also to convert the beam emitted from the single point into a parallel beam;

in this example, the bifocal curved mirror 5 has two focal points, one of which coincides with the focal point of the second monofocal curved mirror 4, constituting a confocal design, the other of which lies in the imaging plane at a distance of 10m, while the bifocal curved mirror 5 has an effective aperture of 80 cm;

in this example, the supporting structure is used to provide structural support for each module in the optical system, and the terahertz transmitting link, the terahertz receiving link, the beam splitter 6, the first single-focus curved mirror 1, the second single-focus curved mirror 4, the bifocal curved mirror 5, and the matching motor module are all mounted on each supporting structure;

in this example, the matching motor module is used for providing power drive for the horizontal swing mirror 2 and the vertical swing mirror 3, and the horizontal swing mirror 2 and the vertical swing mirror 3 are installed on the matching motor module;

in this example, the terahertz quasi-optical system can achieve a high resolution of 5mm at a distance of 10 m.

The working process of the long-distance high-resolution three-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system in the embodiment is as follows:

s1: the terahertz transmitting link transmits terahertz wave beams outwards through a transmitting horn antenna;

s2: the beam reaches the first single focus curved mirror through the beam splitter;

s3: the wave beam emitted by the single point is transmitted by the first single-focus curved mirror and converted into a parallel wave beam and reaches the horizontal swing mirror;

s4: the horizontal oscillating mirror swings left and right, and the parallel beams scan in the horizontal direction and reach the vertical oscillating mirror;

s5: the vertical oscillating mirror swings up and down, and the parallel beams scan in the vertical direction and reach the second single-focus curved mirror;

s6: the parallel wave beams are transmitted and focused by the second single-focus curved mirror, and the wave beams pass through the focus to reach the bifocal curved mirror;

s7: one focal point of the bifocal curved mirror is the same as the focal point of the second single focal curved mirror, so that the beam from the second single focal curved mirror will be reflected to another focal position of the far field imaging region;

s8: the beam scanning of a far field is realized by matching with the scanning of the horizontal swing mirror and the vertical swing mirror;

s9: the echo wave beam reaches the position of the beam splitter according to the S7-6-5-4-3-2, and reaches the terahertz receiving link through reflection of the beam splitter.

It should be noted that, as shown in fig. 4, it is a scanning trajectory diagram of the long-distance high-resolution tri-reflection terahertz collimating system in this embodiment, where the vertical oscillating mirror controls the beam to swing back and forth rapidly in the vertical direction, and the horizontal oscillating mirror swings once in the horizontal direction.

To sum up, the remote high-resolution triple-reflection terahertz quasi-optical system of the embodiment can scan a far-field imaging area by matching the horizontal swing mirror and the vertical swing mirror, obtain a terahertz echo signal of the far-field imaging area, and realize high-resolution imaging of the far field by combining a signal processing technology; meanwhile, the size of the swing mirror is reduced, high-resolution imaging at far fields with different distances can be realized by modifying parameters such as the size and the curvature of the mirror surface, the swing mirror can be widely applied to various remote security inspection places, the quick, civilized, visual, real-time and anti-interference security inspection effect is realized, and the swing mirror is worthy of being popularized and used.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it is understood that the above embodiments are exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and that variations, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the above embodiments by those of ordinary skill in the art within the scope of the present invention.