Optical pump-terahertz probe spectroscopy utilizing a cavity-dumped oscillator-driven terahertz spectrometer

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 353-359

  Flanders, Bret N ^a,b,c,d   Arnett, David C ^b,e   Scherer, Norbert F ^a,b,d,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e EASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity dumped Ti:sapphire; Optical pump terahertz probe spectroscopy; Time resolved absorbance spectra

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PERFORMANCE; SAPPHIRE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

TIME RESOLUTION;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032021916     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.686742     Document Type: Article

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