Efficient terahertz en-face imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 23042-23053

  Katletz, Stefan ^a   Pfleger, Michael ^a   Pühringer, Harald ^a   Vieweg, Nico ^b,c   Scherger, Benedikt ^b,c   Heinen, Bernd ^b,c   Koch, Martin ^c   Wiesauer, Karin ^a  

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

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING EFFECT; EN-FACE IMAGING; FOCUSING LENS; IMAGING PLANE; MEASUREMENT TIME; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; PLANAR STRUCTURE; PLASTIC-METAL COMPOSITE; REFLECTION GEOMETRY; SURFACES AND INTERFACES; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ IMAGING SYSTEMS; TWO MIRRORS;

EID: 80755127053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023042     Document Type: Article

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