Interfacing a transient digitizer to a step-scan Fourier transform spectrometer for nanosecond time resolved spectroscopy

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 70, Issue 1 PART II, 1999, Pages 18-22

  Letendre, Laura T ^a   Dai, Hai Lung ^a   McLaren, Ian A ^b   Johnson, Timothy J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b McLaren and Hart Inc USA   (United States)

^c Bruker Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DYE LASERS; EXCIMER LASERS; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SPECTROMETERS;

DIGITIZERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER; TIME RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 0032607951     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1149536     Document Type: Review

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