Real-time terahertz color scanner for moving objects

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1208-1221

  Yasui, Takeshi ^a   Sawanaka, Ken Ichi ^a   Ihara, Atsushi ^a   Abraham, Emmanuel ^b   Hashimoto, Mamoru ^a   Araki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PIXELS; REAL TIME CONTROL;

COLOR SCANNERS; MOVING OBJECTS; TRANSLATION STAGE;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; MICROWAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 38849150508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001208     Document Type: Article

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