Modal analysis of partially coherent submillimeter-wave quasi-optical systems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1651-1659

  Withington, Stafford ^a,b   Anthony Murphy, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Submillimeter wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MILLIMETER WAVES; MODAL ANALYSIS;

CROSS SPECTRAL DENSITY; QUASI OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032204073     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.736617     Document Type: Article

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