Real-time monitoring of continuous-wave terahertz radiation using a fiber-based, terahertz-comb-referenced spectrum analyzer

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 17034-17043

  Yasui, Takeshi ^a   Nakamura, Ryotaro ^a   Kawamoto, Kohji ^a   Ihara, Atsushi ^a,b   Fujimoto, Yoshihide ^a   Yokoyama, Shuko ^a,c   Inaba, Hajime ^b   Minoshima, Kaoru ^b   Nagatsuma, Tadao ^a   Araki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c Micro Optics Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FIBER LASERS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TEXTILE FIBERS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE TERAHERTZ RADIATIONS; ELECTROOPTIC CRYSTALS; ER-DOPED FIBER LASER; FREQUENCY MULTIPLIER; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE ANTENNAS; REAL TIME MONITORING; SPECTRAL BEHAVIORS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EQUATIONS; FIBERS; FREQUENCY; LASERS; MICROWAVES; RUBIDIUM; STANDARDS; TEXTILE FIBERS;

EID: 70349216865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017034     Document Type: Article

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