A. Nucara et al., TRANSMISSION OF INFRARED RADIATION THROUGH CYLINDRICAL WAVE-GUIDES, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. D, Condensed matter,atomic, molecular and chemical physics, biophysics, 20(4), 1998, pp. 527-538
Measurements of the transmittance of infrared radiation (v < 500 cm(-1
)) through cylindrical waveguides are presented and discussed. The exp
erimental results are compared with numerical simulations, obtained th
rough conventional ray tracing programs. Finally, we estimate the tran
smittance of a waveguide in the case of an infrared synchrotron radiat
ion source. We apply our results to the case of the DA Phi NE collider
, where a synchrotron radiation beamline for the far infrared is under
construction.