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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 23, Issue 6, 063901 (2025)

Photonics-enabled broadband continuous-wave terahertz computed tomography

Zuomin Yang, Lu Zhang, Zhidong Lü, Xing Fang, and Xianbin Yu^*

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College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

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