Improved sensitivity of tunable far-infrared spectroscopy: Application to the detection of hbr in the v = 1 state

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5822-5826

  Natale, Paolo De ^a,b   Lorini, Luca ^a   Inguscio, Massimo ^a   Lonardo, Gianfranco Di ^c   Fusina, Luciano ^c   Ade, Peter A R ^d   Murray, Alexander G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Ist Naz Ottica Sezione di Napoli   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Far infrared spectrometers; Molecular spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HELIUM NEON LASERS; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MIRRORS; PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

BACKGROUND LIMITED INFRARED PHOTOCONDUCTOR MODE; HYPERFINE STRUCTURE; TUNABLE FAR INFRARED SPECTROMETER;

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0031208516     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005822     Document Type: Article

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