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xxi, 383 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
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Springer series in optical sciences ; 151 |
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Springer series in optical sciences ; 151
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 3.3.7.Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET, Mylar) -- 3.3.8.Parylene -- 3.3.9.Fluorogold -- 3.3.10.Zitex -- 3.3.11.Crystalline Quartz -- 3.3.12.Sapphire -- 3.3.13.Silicon and Germanium -- 3.3.14.Diamond -- 3.3.15.Alkali Halides -- 3.3.16.KRS-5 -- 3.3.17.Material Considerations -- 3.4.Windows -- 3.5.Filters -- 3.5.1.Black Polyethylene (PE) Absorption Filters -- 3.5.2.Alkali Halide Filters (Yoshinaga Filters) -- 3.5.3.Scattering Filters -- 3.5.4.Reststrahlen Filters -- 3.5.5.Resonant Mesh Filters -- 3.5.6.Thick Metal Plate Filters -- 3.5.7.Cold Filters -- 3.6.Antireflection Coating -- 3.7.Lenses -- 3.8.Mirrors -- 3.9.Light Pipes -- 3.10.Light Concentrators and Winston Cone -- 3.11.Polarizers and Polarization Transformers -- 3.12.Beam Splitters -- 3.13.Attenuators -- 3.14.Absorbers and Absorbing Materials -- 3.15.Lens-Antenna Systems -- 3.16.Waveguides and Horn Antennas -- 3.17.Photonic Bandgap Materials and Metamaterials -- 4.1.Introduction -- |
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Contents note continued: 4.2.Thermal Emission -- 4.3.Practical Thermal Sources -- 4.3.1.The Globar -- 4.3.2.Plasma Sources -- 4.4.Gas Lasers -- 4.4.1.Electrically Excited Gas Lasers -- 4.4.2.Optically Excited Gas Lasers -- 4.5.Bulk Semiconductor Lasers -- 4.5.1.Germanium Lasers -- 4.5.2.Lasing from Optically Excited Donors in Silicon -- 4.6.Quantum Cascade Laser -- 4.6.1.Principle of Operation -- 4.6.2.Performance -- 4.7.Photomixing for the Generation of Terahertz Radiation -- 4.7.1.Low-temperature-grown Gallium Arsenide -- 4.7.2.Schottky Diode -- 4.7.3.Metal-Insulator-Metal Diodes -- 4.7.4.Photodiodes -- 4.8.Harmonic Generators -- 4.9.Backward Wave Oscillator -- 4.10.Smith-Purcell Sources -- 4.11.Gyrotrons -- 4.12.Terahertz Sources Based on Relativistic Electrons -- 4.12.1.Coherent Synchrotron Radiation from Electron Storage Rings -- 4.12.2.Coherent Synchrotron Radiation from Linear Accelerators -- 4.12.3.Free-Electron Lasers -- 4.13.Parametric Oscillators -- 5.1.Introduction -- |
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Contents note continued: 5.1.1.Detector Cooling -- 5.2.Detector Theory -- 5.2.1.Detector Parameters -- 5.2.2.Relationship Between Detector Parameters -- 5.2.3.Sources of Excess Noise -- 5.3.Thermal Detectors -- 5.3.1.The Golay Detector -- 5.3.2.Pyroelectric Detectors -- 5.3.3.Thermopiles -- 5.3.4.Power Meters -- 5.3.5.Semiconducting Bolometers -- 5.3.6.Superconducting Bolometers -- 5.3.7.Room Temperature Microbolometers -- 5.4.Photoconductive Detectors -- 5.4.1.Extrinsic Germanium Detectors -- 5.4.2.Indium Antimonide Detectors -- 5.4.3.Gallium Arsenide Detectors -- 5.4.4.Blocked Impurity Band Detectors -- 5.5.Heterodyne Detection -- 5.5.1.Heterodyne Detection Theory -- 5.5.2.Schottky Diode Mixer -- 5.5.3.Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor Mixer -- 5.5.4.Hot Electron Bolometer Mixer -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Grating Spectrometer -- 6.3.Fourier-Transform Spectrometer -- 6.3.1.Dispersive Fourier-Transform Spectrometer -- 6.4.Polarizing (Martin-Puplett) Interferometer -- |
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Contents note continued: 6.5.Fabry-Pérot Interferometer -- 6.6.Time-Domain Spectrometer -- 6.6.1.Simplified Models of THz Pulse Generation and Detection -- 6.6.2.Applications -- 6.7.Coherent Source Spectrometers -- 6.7.1.Spectrometers with Multiplier-Based Sources -- 6.7.2.Spectrometers with Backward Wave Oscillators -- 6.7.3.Spectroscopy by Tunable Terahertz Sideband Generation -- 6.7.4.Spectroscopy by Difference Frequency Generation -- 6.8.Heterodyne Spectroscopy -- 6.8.1.System Aspects -- 6.8.2.Back-End Spectrometers -- 6.8.3.Examples of Heterodyne Spectrometers -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Some Fundamentals of Imaging -- 7.3.Camera-Like Imaging -- 7.3.1.Contrast Formation -- 7.3.2.Imaging with Direct Detectors -- 7.3.3.Heterodyne Imaging -- 7.3.4.Three-Dimensional Heterodyne Imaging -- 7.4.Short-Range Imaging -- 7.4.1.Imaging with cw and Long-Pulse Sources -- 7.4.2.Photomixer-Based Imaging -- 7.4.3.Imaging with Quantum Cascade Lasers -- |
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Contents note continued: 7.4.4.Real-Time Imaging with cw Sources -- 7.4.5.Spectroscopic Imaging -- 7.4.6.Three-Dimensional Imaging with a Quantum Cascade Laser -- 7.4.7.Imaging with Time-Domain Spectrometers -- 7.4.8.Spectroscopic Imaging with Time-Domain Spectrometers -- 7.4.9.Three-Dimensional Imaging with Time-Domain Spectrometers -- 7.4.10.Real-Time Imaging with Time-Domain Spectrometers -- 7.5.Near-Field Microscopy -- 7.5.1.Aperture-Based Scanning Near-Field Microscopy -- 7.5.2.Aperture-Less Scanning Near-Field Microscopy |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.1.The Terahertz Spectral Region -- 1.2.History of Terahertz Research -- 1.2.1.Early Twentieth Century Research -- 1.2.2.The Years 1920-1940 -- 1.2.3.The Years 1940-1950 -- 1.2.4.The Years 1950-1960 -- 1.2.5.The Years 1960-1970 -- 1.2.6.The Years 1970-1980 -- 1.2.7.The Years 1980-1990 -- 1.3.Reasons for Increased Interest -- 2.1.Fundamentals of Gaussian Beams -- 2.2.Gaussian Beam Propagation -- 2.3.Coupling of Gaussian Beams -- 2.4.Absorption of Radiation by Materials and Resonant Effects -- 2.5.Nonlinear Interactions with Matter and Terahertz Anisotropy -- 2.6.Polarized Light -- 2.7.Stokes Parameter -- 2.8.Chirp -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Reflection and Absorption -- 3.3.Materials for Windows, Filters, and Lenses -- 3.3.1.Polyethylene (PE) -- 3.3.2.Polypropylene (PP) -- 3.3.3.Polystyrene (PS) -- 3.3.4.Polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE, Teflon) -- 3.3.5.Poly-4-methylpentene-1 (PMT, TPX) -- 3.3.6.Tsurupica (Picarin) -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Electromagnetic devices.
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Terahertz technology.
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| Author |
Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm.
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Kimmitt, M. F.
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| ISBN |
3642025919 (hbk.) |
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9783642025914 (hbk.) |
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