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5. Detectors sensitive to THz wave amplitude
5.1 Measurement techniques
From radio waves to microwaves, the electric field of an incident wave is detected by the alternating current it induces in a metal conductor acting as an antenna. However, the THz wave field oscillates with a periodicity of the order of a picosecond or less, and today there are no electronics capable of recording such brief signals. If a detector delivers a signal proportional to this THz field, this signal can only be recorded with the required temporal accuracy using equivalent-time techniques. There are, however, a few publications presenting single-shot techniques, based on frequency drift (chirp) of laser readout pulses, or on geometrical time delay effects, but these have not been widely used to date.
The equivalent-time measurement...
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Alpes Lasers SA, Avenue des Pâquiers 1, 2072 St-Blaise, Switzerland: QCL lasers http://www.alpeslasers.ch
ACST GmbH, Josef-Bautz-Strasse 15, DE-63457 Hanau, Germany: diodes, multipliers, antennas, waveguides, etc.
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