Silicon beam splitter for far-infrared and terahertz spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 32, 2007, Pages 7884-7888

  Homes, Christopher C ^a,b   Lawrence Carr, G ^c   Lobo, Ricardo P S M ^b   LaVeigne, Joseph D ^d,e   Tanner, David B ^d  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d University of Florida   (United States)

^e Santa Barbara Infrared Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POLARIZATION;

ROUTINE SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON BEAM SPLITTERS;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 38849100235     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.007884     Document Type: Article

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