High speed imaging with CW THz for security

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7160, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Song, Qian ^a,b,d   Redo Sanchez, Albert ^b   Zhao, Yuejin ^a   Zhang, Cunlin ^c  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Continuous THz wave; Galvanometer; High speed imaging

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT SECURITY; GALVANOMETERS; GAS LASERS; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SPEED;

HIGH SPEED IMAGING; IMAGE ACQUISITION TIME; MEASUREMENTS OF; REFLECTION GEOMETRY; SECURITY FIELDS; SECURITY SCREENING; THZ WAVES; TRANSMISSION GEOMETRIES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 62449336257     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.807197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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