Low-loss terahertz ribbon waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 5937-5946

  Yeh, Cavour ^a,b   Shimabukuro, Fred ^a   Siegel, Peter H ^b  

^a California Advanced Studies   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FREQUENCIES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM; LOW-LOSS GUIDING STRUCTURES; TERAHERTZ (THZ);

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 28044473635     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005937     Document Type: Article

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