Table-top sources of ultrashort THz pulses

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1597-1632

  Reimann, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

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EID: 34948823300     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/70/10/R02     Document Type: Article

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