Terahertz lenses made by compression molding of micropowders

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2256-2262

  Scherger, Benedikt ^a   Scheller, Maik ^a   Jansen, Christian ^a   Koch, Martin ^a   Wiesauer, Karin ^a,b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH (RECENDT)   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; MOLDING; RAY TRACING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

BEAM PROFILE MEASUREMENTS; FOCUSING PROPERTIES; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; HYDRAULIC PRESS; IMAGING QUALITY; POLYMER MATERIALS; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPRESSION MOLDING;

EID: 79958744061     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.002256     Document Type: Article

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