Low-loss terahertz waveguide and its imaging application

LI Shuai; DAI Zi-Jie; GAO Xiang; ZHAN Tao; ZHAO De-Long; GONG Cheng; LIU Wei-Wei

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2019.01.012

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