Design and characterization of traveling-wave electrooptic terahertz sensors

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 693-700

  Wu, Qi ^b,c   Zhang, Xi Cheng ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

TRAVELLING WAVE ELECTROOPTIC TERAHERTZ SENSORS; ZINCBLENDE ELECTROOPTIC MATERIALS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0030230002     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.571769     Document Type: Article

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