• DocumentCode
    2671384
  • Title

    Observation of diffuse terahertz pulse propagation

  • Author

    Pearce, J. ; Zhingpin Jian ; Mittleman, D.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    6-6 June 2003
  • Abstract
    We report the first observation of the diffusive propagation of single-cycle terahertz pulses in a random medium. Coherent detection permits characterization of the statistics of both the amplitude and phase of the random waveform.
  • Keywords
    diffusion; high-speed optical techniques; light scattering; random media; submillimetre wave propagation; time resolved spectra; coherent detection; diffusive propagation; random medium; random waveform; terahertz pulses; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Light scattering; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Optical transmitters; Particle scattering; Submillimeter wave propagation; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 2003. QELS. Postconference Digest
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-749-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2003.237956
  • Filename
    1276363