At the dawn of a new era in terahertz technology

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1611-1623

  Hosako, Iwao ^a   Sekine, Norihiko ^a   Patrashin, Mikhail ^a   Saito, Shingo ^a   Fukunaga, Kaori ^a   Kasai, Yasuko ^a   Baron, Philippe ^a   Seta, Takamasa ^a   Mendrok, Jana ^a   Ochiai, Satoshi ^a   Yasuda, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Array detector; Atmospheric propagation; Material database; Quantum cascade laser; Terahertz electromagnetic wave; Terahertz time domain spectroscopy; Terahertz range quantum well photodetector

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REFLECTOMETERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARRAY DETECTORS; ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; MATERIAL DATABASE; QUANTUM WELL PHOTODETECTORS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 46749113355     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2007.898844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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