Terahertz quasi time domain spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17723-17733

  Scheller, Maik ^a   Koch, Martin ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; REFLECTOMETERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

APPLICATION SCENARIO; FREQUENCY SPACING; MULTIMODE LASER; PHOTOMIXERS; SYSTEM APPROACH; TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 70349671603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017723     Document Type: Article

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