Negative index clarricoats-waldron waveguides for terahertz and far infrared applications

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3626-3631

  Salandrino, Alessandro ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING SCHEME; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; FAR INFRARED; METALLIC WAVEGUIDE; MODAL STRUCTURES; NEGATIVE INDEX; PRACTICAL REALIZATIONS; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ DEVICE;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 77149156622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003626     Document Type: Article

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