Inhibiting the TE1-mode diffraction losses in terahertz parallel-plate waveguides using concave plates

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 27800-27809

  Mbonye, Marx ^a   Mendis, Rajind ^a   Mittleman, Daniel M ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCAVE PLATE; DIFFRACTION LOSS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; OPTIMAL RADIUS; PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE; TERA HERTZ; THZ RADIATION; TRANSVERSE ELECTRICS;

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

DIFFRACTION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84870624903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027800     Document Type: Article

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