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The high bandwidth, high azimuth resolution, and high frame rate characteristics of THz SAR contribute to its wide application prospects in both military and civilian remote sensing fields. However, the higher azimuth sampling rate also leads to the more severe non-uniform sampling issues of THz SAR. Traditional methods based on the hardware adjustment of pulse repetition frequency (PRF) and simple interpolation for azimuth resampling struggle to meet the higher imaging quality requirements. The back projection algorithm (BPA) can accurately focus non-uniformly sampled data but requires significant computational resources. The algorithm proposed in this paper, which can reconstruct the wavenumber spectrum of SAR azimuth non-uniformly sampled signals, transforms the spectrum reconstruction problem into a linear equation system and solves it using Tikhonov regularization, thereby exhibiting higher computational efficiency compared to BPA. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm is derived from precise theoretical formulations and controls the solution error by utilizing a regularization parameter, leading to a superior imaging quality compared to the azimuth resampling algorithm. In this paper, an accurate spectrum reconstruction formula of non-uniform sampling signals with a finite length is derived, the influence of noise error on the solution is analyzed, and the THz SAR azimuth non-uniform sampling signals are processed from the wavenumber domain. 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