Imaging of broadband terahertz beams using an array of antenna-coupled microbolometers operating at room temperature

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 4817-4825

  Oden, Jonathan ^a   Meilhan, Jérome ^b   Lalanne Dera, Jérémy ^b   Roux, Jean François ^a   Garet, Frédéric ^a   Coutaz, Jean Louis ^a   Simoens, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

ANTENNA-COUPLED; BROADBAND TERAHERTZ; FEMTOSECOND OSCILLATORS; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; MICRO-BOLOMETERS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE ANTENNAS; READOUT ELECTRONICS; REALTIME IMAGING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TERAHERTZ; TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROMETER; UNCOOLED;

ANTENNAS;

DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; RADIOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MINIATURIZATION; RADIOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84874515915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.004817     Document Type: Article

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