Diffraction effects in single-and two-laser photothermal lens spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 27, 1997, Pages 6711-6721

  Bialkowski, Stephen E ^a   Chartier, Agnès ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam propagation; Diffraction; Optimization; Photothermal lens spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GEOMETRY; LASER PULSES; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE SHIFT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIFFRACTION EFFECT; GAUSSIAN LASER EXCITATION SOURCE; GAUSSIAN REFRACTIVE INDEX PERTURBATION; OPTICAL GEOMETRY EFFECT; PHOTOTHERMAL EFFECT; PHOTOTHERMAL LENS SIGNAL; PHOTOTHERMAL LENS SPECTROSCOPY; PUMP PROBE FOCUS GEOMETRY;

SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0031580736     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006711     Document Type: Article

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