Coupling terahertz radiation between sub-wavelength metal-metal waveguides and free space using monolithically integrated horn antennae

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18387-18393

  Lloyd Hughes, J ^a   Scalari, G ^a   Van Kolck, A ^a   Fischer, M ^a   Beck, M ^a   Faist, J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; METALS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVEGUIDES;

METAL-METAL WAVEGUIDES; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TERAHERTZ PULSE; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROMETERS;

HORN ANTENNAS;

METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 70349669582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018387     Document Type: Article

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