Extraction of refractive indices of materials through transmission terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

CHEN Li-Qun; GAO Fei; GONG Xiao-Jing; YANG Jun; LU Yuan-Pu; LIU Wen-Quan; FENG Guang-Zhi; ZHANG Yan-Dong; JIN Lei; YU Wen-Long

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1010.2013.00160

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