Terahertz line detection by a microlens array coupled photoconductive antenna array

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18443-18450

  Pradarutti, B ^a   Muller R ^a   Freese, W ^a   Matthaus G ^b   Riehemann, S ^a   Notni, G ^a   Nolte, S ^b   Tunnermann A ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; LASER BEAMS; LASER EXCITATION; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; LINE DETECTION; LINE-FOCUS; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE ANTENNAS; TERA HERTZ;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 55349126765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018443     Document Type: Article

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