Picosecond pump-probe absorption spectroscopy in gases: Models and experimental validation

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2869-2878

  Settersten, Thomas B ^a   Linne, Mark A ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POTASSIUM;

ELECTRONIC QUENCHING; PUMP PROBE ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY (PPAS);

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0037140596     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002869     Document Type: Article

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