Beam profiling of a commercial lens-assisted terahertz time domain spectrometer

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Beam profiling of a commercial lens-assisted terahertz time domain spectrometer. / Freer, Suzanna; Gorodetsky, Andrei; Navarro-Cia, Miguel.

In: IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, Vol. 11, No. 1, 01.01.2021, p. 90-100.

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Freer, S, Gorodetsky, A & Navarro-Cia, M 2021, 'Beam profiling of a commercial lens-assisted terahertz time domain spectrometer', IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1109/TTHZ.2020.3026656

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Freer, S., Gorodetsky, A., & Navarro-Cia, M. (2021). Beam profiling of a commercial lens-assisted terahertz time domain spectrometer. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, 11(1), 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1109/TTHZ.2020.3026656

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Freer S, Gorodetsky A, Navarro-Cia M. Beam profiling of a commercial lens-assisted terahertz time domain spectrometer. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. 2021 Jan 1;11(1):90-100. https://doi.org/10.1109/TTHZ.2020.3026656

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Freer, Suzanna ; Gorodetsky, Andrei ; Navarro-Cia, Miguel. / Beam profiling of a commercial lens-assisted terahertz time domain spectrometer. In: IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. 2021 ; Vol. 11, No. 1. pp. 90-100.

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