New THz sources for bio-medical imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6485, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Harris, James S ^a   Gu, Anjia ^a   Kim, Seongsin M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio medical imaging; Non linear optics; Optical parametric oscillator; Quantum cascade laser; THz sources

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; ORIENTATION PATTERNED GALLIUM ARSENIDE; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS (QCL); TERAHERTZ SOURCES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 34248632535     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.714266     Document Type: Conference Paper

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