Transmission features of frequency-selective components in the far infrared determined by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 3961-3967

  Winnewisser, Carsten ^a   Lewen, Frank ^b   Weinzierl, Jochen ^c   Helm, Hanspeter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY SELECTIVE COMPONENTS (FSC); TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROMETERS;

INFRARED TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032606408     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003961     Document Type: Article

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