Teraherlz birefringence for orientation analysis

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2037-2044

  Jördens, Christian ^a   Scheller, Maik ^a   Wichmann, Matthias ^a   Mikulics, Martin ^b   Wiesauer, Karin ^c   Koch, Martin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c Upper Austrian Research GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IMPULSE RESPONSE; OXIDE MINERALS;

INNER STRUCTURE; NATURAL PRODUCTS; ORIENTATION ANALYSIS; RUTILE CRYSTAL; TEMPORAL WAVEFORMS; TERA HERTZ; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROMETERS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 65249089035     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002037     Document Type: Article

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