Coherent terahertz photonics

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 22988-23000

  Seeds, Alwyn J ^a   Fice, Martyn J ^a   Balakier, Katarzyna ^a   Natrella, Michele ^a   Mitrofanov, Oleg ^a   Lamponi, Marco ^b   Chtioui, Mourad ^b   Van Dijk, Frederic ^b   Pepper, Michael ^a,c   Aeppli, Gabriel ^c   Davies, A Giles ^d   Dean, Paul ^d   Linfield, Edmund ^d   Renaud, Cyril C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ALCATEL THALES III V LAB   (France)

^c LONDON CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

100 GHZ; COHERENT SYSTEM; ENERGY EFFICIENT; INTEGRATED PLATFORM; PHOTONIC LOCAL OSCILLATOR; TERAHERTZ PHOTONICS; THZ SPECTRUM; THZ SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84884563649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.022988     Document Type: Article

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