Three-dimensional imaging with a terahertz quantum cascade laser

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2123-2129

  Lien Nguyen, K ^a   Johns, Michael L ^a   Gladden, Lynn F ^a   Worrall, Christopher H ^b   Alexander, Paul ^b   Beere, Harvey E ^b   Pepper, Michael ^b   Ritchie, David A ^b   Alton, Jesse ^e   Barbieri, Stefano ^c   Linfield, Edmund H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PROJECTION SYSTEMS;

TERAHERTZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 33645084006     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002123     Document Type: Article

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