Terahertz imaging system based on a backward-wave oscillator

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 30, 2004, Pages 5637-5646

  Dobroiu, Adrian ^a,d   Yamashita, Masatsugu ^a   Ohshima, Yuichi N ^a,b   Morita, Yasuyuki ^a,e   Otani, Chiko ^a   Kawase, Kodo ^a,c  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b PENTAX Corporation   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER   (Romania)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; LIGHT SOURCES; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PYROELECTRICITY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; MOLECULAR TRANSITIONS; PHOTON ENERGY; PYROELECTRIC SENSORS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PLANT; SWINE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CHICKENS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; PLANTS; SWINE;

EID: 8344241235     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005637     Document Type: Article

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