Room temperature, THz photomixing sweep oscillator and its application to spectroscopic transmission through organic materials

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 5333-5342

  Brown, E R ^a   Bjarnason, J ^a   Chan, T L J ^a   Driscoll, D C ^a   Hanson, M ^a   Gossard, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLAY CELLS; PHOTOMIXING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SWEEP OSCILLATORS;

BIOMATERIALS; BOLOMETERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 20444505234     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1808912     Document Type: Article

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