Time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy and terahertz emission spectroscopy

Terahertz Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 73-118

  Baxter, Jason B ^a   Schmuttenmaer, Charles A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITONS; INFRARED LASERS; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ACCURATE MODELING; CARRIER SCATTERING; FREQUENCY RANGES; NEAR-IR LASERS; PHOTON ENERGY; SUB-PICOSECOND; THZ SPECTROSCOPY; TIME-RESOLVED;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85051773728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420007701     Document Type: Chapter

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