Terahertz polaritonics

Annual Review of Materials Research

Volumn 37, Issue , 2007, Pages 317-350

  Feurer, T ^a   Stoyanov, Nikolay S ^b   Ward, David W ^b   Vaughan, Joshua C ^b   Statz, Eric R ^b   Nelson, Keith A ^b  

^a Institute of Applied Physics   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulse shaping; Ferroelectrics; Lattice dynamics; Phonon polaritons; THz technology; Ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

MACHINING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHONONS; PHOTONICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FEMTOSECOND PULSE SHAPING; PHONON-POLARITONS; THZ TECHNOLOGY; ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 34248511233     PISSN: 15317331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.matsci.37.052506.084327     Document Type: Review

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