Measuring properties of superposed light beams carrying different frequencies

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 944-951

  Lee, Dong Ik ^a   Roychoudhuri, Chandrasekhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; FLUORESCENCE; FREQUENCIES; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

MODE LOCKED LASERS; MULTI-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL FREQUENCIES; SUPERIMPOSITION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 1642534877     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000944     Document Type: Article

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