Visible intracavity laser spectroscopy with a step-scan fourier-transform interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 8533-8540

  Strong, Kimberly ^a,b   Johnson, Timothy J ^a,c   Harris, Geoffrey W ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Bruker Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracavity laser spectroscopy; Step scan Fourier transform interferometry; Timeresolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DYE LASERS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MIRRORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED DATA ACQUISITION; GATED GRATING SPECTROMETER; INTRACAVITY LASER SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL MULTICHANNEL ANALYZER; STEP SCAN FOURIER TRANSFORM INTERFEROMETER;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0031270584     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008533     Document Type: Article

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