Propagation effects in electro-optic sampling of terahertz pulses in GaAs

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 3368-3371

  Vossebürger, Markus ^a   Brucherseifer, Martin ^a   Cheon Cho, Gyu ^a   Roskos, Hartmut G ^a,b   Kurz, Heinrich ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 1542525581     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.003368     Document Type: Article

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