Passive terahertz camera for standoff security screening

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Grossman, Erich ^a   Dietlein, Charles ^a   Ala Laurinaho, Juha ^c   Leivo, Mikko ^b   Gronberg, Leif ^b   Gronholm, Markus ^b   Lappalainen, Petteri ^b   Rautiainen, Anssi ^b   Tamminen, Aleksi ^c   Luukanen, Arttu ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; FOCUSING;

CAMERA-BASED; FIELD OF VIEWS; FRAME RATE; LINEAR ARRAYS; MICRO-BOLOMETERS; SECURITY SCREENING; TARGET PLANE; TERA HERTZ;

SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

EID: 77956007765     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.00E106     Document Type: Article

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