Multiplexed continuous-wave diode-laser cavity ringdown measurements of multiple species

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2009-2016

  Totschnig, Gerhard ^b,c   Baer, Douglas S ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Winter, Franz ^b   Hofbauer, Hermann ^b   Hanson, Ronald K ^a  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MIRRORS; RESONANCE;

CAVITY RINGDOWN (CRD) SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0001655019     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002009     Document Type: Article

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