Recent progresses in terahertz wave air photonics

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 274-281

  Dai, Jianming ^a   Clough, Benjamin ^a   Ho, I Chen ^a   Lu, Xiaofei ^a   Liu, Jingle ^b   Zhang, Xi Cheng ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Bloomberg LP   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband terahertz waves; coherent control; laser induced gas plasma; remote terahertz wave sensing; THz radiation enhanced emission of fluorescence (THz REEF); THz enhanced acoustics (TEA)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND TERAHERTZ; COHERENT CONTROL; LASER-INDUCED GAS PLASMA; TERA HERTZ; THZ RADIATION-ENHANCED EMISSION OF FLUORESCENCE (THZ-REEF); THZ-ENHANCED ACOUSTICS (TEA);

LASER EXCITATION; TERAHERTZ WAVE DETECTORS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 80052444433     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2011.2159550     Document Type: Article

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