Remote identification of protrusions and dents on surfaces by terahertz reflectometry with spatial beam filtering and out-of-focus detection

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3996-3998

  Hasegawa, Noboru ^a,b   Löffler, Torsten ^a   Thomson, Mark ^a   Roskos, Hartmut G ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

SPATIAL BEAM FILTERING; TERAHERTZ REFLECTOMETRY;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 0344083407     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1623949     Document Type: Article

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