Signal and noise in Fourier-transform sum-frequency surface vibrational spectroscopy with femtosecond lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 363-369

  McGuire, John A ^a,b   Shen, Y R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION; VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33644923818     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000363     Document Type: Article

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