Improvement of terahertz imaging with a dynamic subtraction technique

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2982-2987

  Jiang, Zhiping ^a   Xu, X G ^b   Zhang, X C ^c  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; FREQUENCY MODULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

OPTICAL BACKGROUND DRIFT;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0000889688     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002982     Document Type: Article

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