Spatiotemporal shaping of half-cycle terahertz pulses by diffraction through conductive apertures of finite thickness

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1399-1405

  Bromage, Jake ^a   Radic, Stojan ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^a   Stroud Jr , Carlos R ^a   Fauchet, Phillipe M ^b   Sobolewski, Roman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

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EID: 0032377153     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.001399     Document Type: Article

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