Frequency-switched heterodyne cavity ringdown spectroscopy

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 920-922

  Levenson, M D ^a   Paldus, B A ^a   Spence, T G ^b,c   Harb, C C ^b   Zare, R N ^b   Lawrence, M J ^b   Byer, R L ^b  

^a Informed Diagonstics Corporation   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERCAVITY FIELDS;

BANDWIDTH; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OSCILLATIONS; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

HETERODYNING;

EID: 0000505187     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.000920     Document Type: Article

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