Resonant tuning fork detector for THz radiation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14069-14074

  Willer, Ulrike ^a   Pohlkötter, Andreas ^a   Schade, Wolfgang ^a   Xu, Jihua ^b   Losco, Tonia ^b   Green, Richard P ^b   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^b   Beere, Harvey E ^c   Ritchie, David A ^c  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUNING;

CRYOGENIC COOLING; DETECTION SCHEME; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; MAGNETIC RADIATION; QUARTZ TUNING FORK; RESONANT EXCITATION; THZ RADIATION; TUNING FORKS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 68349148222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014069     Document Type: Article

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