Terahertz imaging employing graphene modulator arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2324-2330

  Sensale Rodriguez, Berardi ^a   Rafique, Subrina ^a   Yan, Rusen ^a   Zhu, Mingda ^a   Protasenko, Vladimir ^a   Jena, Debdeep ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Xing, Huili Grace ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; MODULATION; MODULATORS;

ACTIVE ELEMENTS; MODULATION DEPTH; RECONFIGURABLE; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; THZ WAVES; VIDEO RATES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874043351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002324     Document Type: Article

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