Aqueous blackbody calibration source for millimeter-wave/terahertz metrology

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 5604-5615

  Dietlein, Charles ^a,b   Popović, Zoya ^a   Grossman, Erich N ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WATER ABSORPTION;

BLACKBODY CALIBRATION; BROADBAND EMITTERS; ENTRANCE APERTURES; EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE; RADIOMETRIC TEMPERATURE; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; UNIFORM TEMPERATURE;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 60749095047     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.005604     Document Type: Article

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