Terahertz imaging: Applications and perspectives

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Jansen, Christian ^a,b   Wietzke, Steffen ^a,b   Peters, Ole ^a,b   Scheller, Maik ^a,b   Vieweg, Nico ^a,b   Salhi, Mohammed ^a   Krumbholz, Norman ^a   Jördens, Christian ^a   Hochrein, Thomas ^c   Koch, Martin ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c SKZ KFE gGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOUNDING (CHEMICAL); FOOD PRODUCTS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; WELDS;

COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; COMPOUNDING PROCESS; FIBER REINFORCED; IN-LINE MONITORING; MARKET INTRODUCTION; QUALITY INSPECTION; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; WATER DISTRIBUTIONS;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77955946654     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000E48     Document Type: Article

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