A high signal-to-noise ratio, coherent, frequency-domain THz spectrometer employed to characterize explosive compounds

33rd International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves and the 16th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics, 2008, IRMMW-THz 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Demers, Joseph R ^a   Logan Jr , Ronald T ^a   Bergeron, Normand J ^b   Brown, Elliott R ^c  

^a Emcore Corporation   (United States)

^b Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives   (United States)

^c Physical Domains LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; NITRATION; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

CONTINUOUS FREQUENCIES; DIODE LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACKS; DO-MAINS; EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 58049115408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIMW.2008.4665534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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