Terahertz Radiation From a Photoconducting Antenna Array

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1992, Pages 2291-2301

  Froberg, Nan M ^a   Hu, Bin Bin ^a   Zhang, Xi Cheng ^a   Auston, David H ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LASER PULSES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY;

SUBMILLIMETER WAVE RADIATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0026941942     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.159536     Document Type: Article

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