Terahertz polarization-sensitive rectangular pipe waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21532-21539

  Lu, Jen Tang ^a   Lai, Chih Hsien ^b   Tseng, Tzu Fang ^a   Chen, Hua ^a   Tsai, Yuan Fu ^a   Chen, I Ju ^a   Hwang, Yuh Jing ^c   Chang, Hung Chun ^a   Sun, Chi Kuang ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HWA HSIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIPE; POLARIZATION; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ATTENUATION SPECTRA; BUTT COUPLING; CIRCULAR PIPE; LOW LOSS; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; POLARIZATION CONTROL; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; RECTANGULAR PIPES; TERA HERTZ; THZ WAVES; WAVE-GUIDING;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 80054886259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021532     Document Type: Article

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