Large-area electro-optic ZnTe terahertz emitters

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5353-5362

  Loffler T ^a   Hahn, T ^a   Thomson, M ^a   Jacob, F ^a   Roskos, H G ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHYSICAL OPTICS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ELECTRO-OPTIC EMITTERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERAHERTZ (THZ) GENERATION; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 22744446150     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005353     Document Type: Article

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