Submillimeter high-resolution ft spectrometer for atmospheric studies

Applied Optics

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 1984, Pages 2594-2603

  Carli, Bruno ^b   Mencaraglia, Francesco ^b   Bonetti, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS - INSTRUMENTS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SPECTROMETERS, INFRARED - DESIGN;

FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA;

EID: 0021482282     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.23.002594     Document Type: Article

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