Palm-size and real-time terahertz imager, and its application to development of terahertz sources

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8716, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Oda, Naoki ^a   Ishi, Tsutomu ^a   Kurashina, Seiji ^a   Sudou, Takayuki ^a   Miyoshi, Masaru ^a   Morimoto, Takao ^a   Yamazaki, Takao ^a   Tsuboi, Taku ^a   Sasaki, Tokuhito ^a  

^a NEC Guidance and Electro Optics Division   (Japan)

Author keywords

Palm size; Real time; THz beam patterns; THz imager

Indexed keywords

BEAM PATTERN; FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION; PALM-SIZE; REAL-TIME; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERAHERTZ SOURCES; THZ IMAGER; THZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

DIFFRACTION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 84881067910     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2015345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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