Investigation of aqueous alcohol and sugar solutions with reflection terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14717-14737

  Jepsen, Peter Uhd ^a   Møller, Uffe ^a   Merbold, Hannes ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

ALCOHOLS;

EID: 35948956355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014717     Document Type: Article

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