High-power terahertz radiation emitter with a diamond photoconductive switch array

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 36, 2001, Pages 6733-6736

  Yoneda, Hitoki ^a   Tokuyama, Kazutatsu ^a   Ueda, Kenichi ^a   Yamamoto, Hironori ^b   Baba, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIAMONDS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTOCONDUCTING DEVICES; STRESSES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ENERGY DENSITY;

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 0038488382     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006733     Document Type: Article

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