Photoconductive Generation and Detection of Guided-Wave and Free-Space Terahertz Waveforms

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E86-C, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1218-1225

  Elezzabi, Abdulhakem Y ^a   Holzman, Jonathan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Femtosecond technology; Photonic switch; Semiconductor optical devices; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; SIGNAL GENERATORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

WAVEFORMS;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0141903335     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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