A high resolution terahertz spectrometer for chemical detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6549, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Majewski, Alexander ^a   Abreu, Rene ^a   Wraback, Michael ^b  

^a GOODRICH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; LINEWIDTH; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GOODRICH DESIGN; PHOTOMIXER TRANSCEIVERS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 35948933917     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.719485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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