  Most transmission and detection channels fail to faithfully support broadband
wave packets because of physical limitations, like chromatic dispersion and
absorption. We explore the case of lossy detection of ultrashort THz pulses
using the widespread electro-optic detection scheme. We demonstrate that one
can fully recover the original THz pulse shape, duration and amplitude, using a
simple experimental procedure and a reconstruction algorithm which encodes the
physical properties of the detection system.
