High-power narrow-band terahertz generation using large-aperture photoconductors

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1257-1268

  Park, Sang Gyu ^a,b   Weiner, A M ^a,f,g   Melloch, Michael R ^a   Siders, Craig W ^c,d   Siders, Jennifer L W ^c,e   Taylor, Antoinette J ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THIN FILMS;

INTERPULSE SPACING; MULTIPLE PULSE EXCITATION; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE EMITTERS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 0033171352     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.777228     Document Type: Article

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