Improved temperature precision in rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy with a modeless dye laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 744-747

  Vestin, Fredrik ^a   Afzelius, Mikael ^a   Bengtsson, Per Erik ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE LASERS; NEODYMIUM; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETERS;

NARROWBAND RADIATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE SHOT SPECTRA; THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS;

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33645034438     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000744     Document Type: Article

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