Preliminary Analysis of Candle Flame Impact on THz Electromagnetic Wave Propagation

Abstract

This paper presents a preliminary analysis of candle flame impact on the ultra-broadband terahertz (THz) communication links across a spectrum of interest from 300 GHz to 310 GHz. This approach is based on complex transfer functions extracted from channel measurements using a vector network analyzer (VNA) to study the variations in total received power and phase. The channel measurements are performed in a lecture room under line-of-sight (LoS) environment. By evaluating the results, it turns out that the ray trajectories remain unchanged with candle flame but have slightly altered amplitudes of paths and phases.