Simple empirical analytical approximation to the Voigt profile

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 666-672

  Liu, Yuyan ^a,b,c   Lin, Jieli ^b,d   Huang, Guangming ^b,c   Guo, Yuanqing ^b   Duan, Chuanxi ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FOSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; PROBABILITY;

GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035626108     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.000666     Document Type: Article

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