Terahertz form birefringence

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10137-10142

  Scheller, Maik ^a,b   Jördens, Christian ^a   Koch, Martin ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

BROAD FREQUENCY RANGE; DIELECTRIC PARAMETERS; FORM BIREFRINGENCE; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; QUASI-OPTICAL; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; THEORETICAL SIMULATION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

BIREFRINGENCE; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 77952707571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010137     Document Type: Article

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