Advancing terahertz time-domain spectroscopy for remote detection and tracing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5070, Issue , 2003, Pages 17-27

  Xu, Jingzhou ^a   Liu, Haibo ^a   Yuan, Tao ^a   Kerstins, Roland ^a   Zhang, Xi Cheng ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Spectral resolution; THz; THz source; Time domain spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TEMPORAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0242635911     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.504296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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