Generation of broadband radially polarized terahertz radiation directly on a cylindrical metal wire

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8433-8439

  Zhu, Wenqi ^a   Agrawal, Amit ^a   Cao, Hua ^b   Nahata, Ajay ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PUMPING; WIRE;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL CONVERSION; OPTICAL RECTIFICATIONS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DETECTORS; POLED POLYMER; RADIALLY POLARIZED; SECOND-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THZ SURFACE PLASMONS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICS; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHTING; METALS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 45249092720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008433     Document Type: Article

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