Preface ........................................................ xi
Editor ....................................................... xiii
Contributors ................................................... xv
SECTION I Instrumentation and Methods
Chapter 1
Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy with Photoconductive
Antennas ........................................................ 1
R. Alan Cheville
Chapter 2
Nonlinear Optical Techniques for Terahertz Pulse Generation
and Detection - Optical Rectification and Electrooptic
Sampling ....................................................... 41
Ingrid Wilke and Suranjana Sengupta
Chapter 3
Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy and Terahertz Emission
Spectroscopy ................................................... 73
Jason B. Baxter and Charles A. Schmuttenmaer
SECTION II Applications in Physics and
Materials Science
Chapter 4
Time-Resolved Terahertz Studies of Carrier Dynamics in
Semiconductors, Superconductors, and Strongly Correlated
Electron Materials ............................................ 119
Robert A. Kaindl and Richard D. Averitt
Chapter 5
Time-Resolved Terahertz Studies of Conductivity Processes
in Novel Electronic Materials ................................. 171
Jie Shan and Susan L. Dexheimer
Chapter 6
Optical Response of Semiconductor Nanostructures in Terahertz
Fields Generated by Electrostatic Free-Electron Lasers ........ 205
Sam G. Carter, John Cerne and Mark S. Sherwin
SECTION III Applications in Chemistry and
Biomedicine
Chapter 7
Terahertz Spectroscopy of Biomolecules ........................ 269
Edwin J. Heilweil and David F. Plusquellic
Chapter 8
Pharmaceutical and Security Applications of Terahertz
Spectroscopy .................................................. 299
J. Axel Zeitler, Thomas Rades and Philip F. Taday
Index ......................................................... 325
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