Title :
Metal wire waveguides for broadband terahertz pulses
Author :
Wang, Kanglin ; Mittleman, Daniel M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA
Abstract :
Guided propagation of terahertz pulses on metal wires, characterized with the direct measurement of the electric field in the time domain, shows record low loss and negligible group velocity dispersion.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical dispersion; optical losses; optical waveguides; submillimetre wave propagation; submillimetre waves; broadband terahertz pulses; metal wire waveguides; Dispersion; Electric variables measurement; Loss measurement; Propagation losses; Pulse measurements; Submillimeter wave measurements; Submillimeter wave propagation; Time measurement; Velocity measurement; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363266