A grating-bicoupled plasma-wave photomixer with resonant-cavity enhanced structure

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4815-4825

  Otsuji, Taiichi ^a   Hanabe, Mitsuhiro ^a   Nishimura, Takuya ^a   Sano, Eiichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GAIN CONTROL; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMAS;

FINITE-DIFFERENTIAL TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TERAHERTZ MIRRORS; VERTICAL CAVITY STRUCTURE;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33744528409     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004815     Document Type: Article

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