Passive submillimeter-wave imaging demonstrated by a two-element interferometer

HAN Dong-Hao; LIU Hao; ZHANG De-Hai; MENG Jin; ZHAO Xin; ZHANG Ying; WU Ji

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2016.06.004

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