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Communications with THz Waves: Switching Data Between Two Waveguides

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This work was supported in part by the US National Science Foundation and the W.M. Keck Foundation.

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  1. School of Engineering, Brown University, 184 Hope Street, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

    J. Ma & D. M. Mittleman

  2. Department of Physics and Materials Sciences Center, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Renthof 5, 35032, Marburg, Germany

    M. Weidenbach, R. Guo & M. Koch

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Ma, J., Weidenbach, M., Guo, R. et al. Communications with THz Waves: Switching Data Between Two Waveguides. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 38, 1316–1320 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-017-0428-4

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