Pulsed, single-mode cavity ringdown spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 3951-3960

  van Zee, Roger D ^a   Hodges, Joseph T ^a   Looney, J Patrick ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CAVITY RESONATORS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; SHOT NOISE;

SINGLE-MODE CAVITY RINGDOWN SPECTROSCOPY;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0032622007     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003951     Document Type: Article

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