Continuous-wave laser spectrometer automatically aligned and continuously tuned from 11.8 to 16.1 μm by use of diode-laser-pumped difference-frequency generation in GaSe

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1513-1522

  Putnam, Roger S ^a   Lancaster, David G ^a,b  

^a AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001384449     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.001513     Document Type: Article

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