Effect of Doppler broadening on quantitative concentration measurements with degenerate four-wave mixing spectroscopy

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1107-1119

  Reichardt, Thomas A ^a   Lucht, Robert P ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DOPPLER EFFECT; LASERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COLLISIONAL LINEWIDTHS; DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; DENSITY MATRIX EQUATIONS; DOPPLER BROADENING; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; REFLECTIVITY;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0030173692     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.13.001107     Document Type: Article

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