Intracavity laser absorption measurements at ultrahigh spectral resolution

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 4062-4068

  Kachanov, Alexander A ^a   Stoeckel, Frédéric Stoeckel ^a   Charvat, Alěs ^a   O’brien, James J ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; High resolution spectroscopy; Lasers; Ultrasensitive spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041557320     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004062     Document Type: Article

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