Discrete terahertz beam steering with an electrically controlled liquid crystal device

Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1117-1122

  Scherger, Benedikt ^a   Reuter, Marco ^a   Scheller, Maik ^a   Altmann, Kristian ^a   Vieweg, Nico ^a   Dabrowski, Roman ^b   Deibel, Jason A ^c   Koch, Martin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal (LC); Quasi optics; THz spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANGLE-DEPENDENT; BEAM-STEERING; ELECTRONIC BEAMS; FREE-SPACE COMMUNICATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; QUASI OPTICS; TERA HERTZ; THZ FREQUENCIES; THZ SPECTROSCOPY; THZ-TDS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84868624718     PISSN: 18666892     EISSN: 18666906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10762-012-9927-5     Document Type: Article

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