Issues and applications in ultra-sensitive molecular spectroscopy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4634, Issue , 2002, Pages 58-69

  Ishibashi, Chikako ^a   Ye, Jun ^a   Hall, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity enhanced spectroscopy; Frequency standard

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

CAVITY-ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0036405366     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463838     Document Type: Article

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