High-intensity terahertz pulses at 1-kHz repetition rate

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1839-1846

  Budiarto, E ^b,d   Margolies, J ^b   Jeong, S ^b,e   Son, J ^a,c   Bokor, J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Hynix Semiconductor Inc   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MIRRORS; PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TRANSMITTERS;

BEAM PROFILE; CARRIER TRANSPORT DYNAMICS; LASER EXCITATION; PULSE ENERGY; TERAHERTZ PULSES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0030270866     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.538792     Document Type: Article

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