Swept-frequency feedback interferometry using terahertz frequency QCLs: A method for imaging and materials analysis

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 22194-22205

  Rakić, Aleksandar D ^a   Taimre, Thomas ^a   Bertling, Karl ^a   Lim, Yah Leng ^a   Dean, Paul ^b   Indjin, Dragan ^b   Ikonić, Zoran ^b   Harrison, Paul ^b   Valavanis, Alexander ^b   Khanna, Suraj P ^b   Lachab, Mohammad ^b   Wilson, Stephen J ^a   Linfield, Edmund H ^b   Davies, A Giles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT DETECTION; COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; HIGH-POWER RADIATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; MATERIALS ANALYSIS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE STABILITY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84884545695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.022194     Document Type: Article

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