Tuning a terahertz wire laser

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 732-737

  Qin, Qi ^a   Williams, Benjamin S ^a,b   Rumar, Sushil ^a   Eno, John L ^c   Hu, Qing ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA NANOSYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL SPECIES; FREQUENCY-TUNING; LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS; OUT-COUPLING EFFICIENCY; SPECTRAL FINGERPRINTS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TRANSVERSE DIMENSIONS; TUNING MECHANISM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INFRARED LASERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

WIRE;

EID: 72449134731     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.218     Document Type: Article

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