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Transmission and phase-shift characteristics of dichroic high-pass filters
with cutoff frequencies as high as 1.11 THz and of a cross-shaped grid band
pass filter with a resonance frequency of 280 GHz were measured with an ele
ctro-optic sampling terahertz time-domain spectrometer operating between 0.
1 and 2 THz. Good agreement with transmission theories is found. We also co
mpare the transmission performance of cascaded dichroic filters with that o
f cross-shaped grid bandpass filters. Both types of bandpass filter permit
frequency-selective ultrafast experiments in the far-infrared spectral regi
on. In the millimeter and the submillimeter wavelength regions, which are d
ifficult to access by conventional means, knowledge of the frequency respon
se of frequency-selective components is important for applications in frequ
ency mixing, multiplying, and multiplexing in quasi-optical systems. (C) 19
99 Optical Society of America.