High-resolution THz spectrometer with kHz scan rates

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 430-437

  Bartels, A ^a,b   Thoma, A ^a   Janke, C ^a,b   Dekorsy, T ^a   Dreyhaupt, A ^c   Winnerl, S ^c   Helm, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b Gigaoptics GmbH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; SAPPHIRE; SPECTROMETERS; TITANIUM;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; HIGH TIME-RESOLUTION; OPTICAL SAMPLING; THZ EMITTER;

SCANNING;

EID: 30344432389     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.14.000430     Document Type: Article

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