Variable-focus terahertz lens

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4528-4535

  Scherger, Benedikt ^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

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; LIGHT SOURCES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BEAM PATH; FOCAL LENGTHS; OPTICAL LIGHT; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; STANDOFF DETECTION; TERA HERTZ; VARIABLE FOCUS LENS; VISIBLE FREQUENCIES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

EID: 79952152972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004528     Document Type: Article

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