Characterization of thin-film losses with a synchronously pumped ringdown cavity

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4584-4589

  Vaschenko, Georgiy ^a   Godwal, Yogesh ^a   Menoni, Carmen S ^a   Montcalm, Claude ^b   Blacker, Richard ^b   Siegfried, Daniel ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PUMPING; SOLID STATE LASERS; THIN FILMS;

CAVITY RINGDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (CRDS);

CAVITY RESONATORS;

EID: 0042882863     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004584     Document Type: Article

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