Extraction of the anisotropic dielectric properties of materials from polarization-resolved terahertz time-domain spectra

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Castro Camus, E ^a   Johnston, M B ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Dichroism; Photoconductive; Polarization; Quartz; Terahertz; Ultra fast

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIELECTRICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MATHEMATICAL FORMALISM; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ BAND; TIME DOMAIN; TIME-DOMAIN DATA; ULTRA-FAST;

ANISOTROPY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIREFRINGENCE; CERAMIC CAPACITORS; DICHROISM; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; POLARIZATION; QUARTZ; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 70449396954     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/11/10/105206     Document Type: Article

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