High-resolution terahertz spectrometer

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 159-168

  Klatt, Gregor ^a   Gebs, Raphael ^a   Schäfer, Hanjo ^a   Nagel, Michael ^b   Janke, Christof ^a,c   Bartels, Albrecht ^a,c   Dekorsy, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Gigaoptics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Submillimeter wave spectroscopy; Submillimeter wave technology; Ultrafast optics; Water

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTRA; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES; HEAVY WATER; LASER PULSES; MIXTURES; SCANNING; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROMETERS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; TIME DELAY; WATER;

ASYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL SAMPLINGS; HIGH FREQUENCY RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; HIGH-PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE SPECTROSCOPY; SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE TECHNOLOGY; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79959232746     PISSN: 07921233     EISSN: 21910359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2047635     Document Type: Article

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