Laser-locked, high-repetition-rate cavity ringdown spectrometer

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 727-740

  Martinez R Z ^a,b   Metsälä, Markus ^a   Vaittinen, Olavi ^a   Lantta, Tommi ^a   Halonen, Lauri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; CAVITY RESONATORS; LINEARIZATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY CALIBRATION; HIGH-REPETITION-RATE CAVITY RINGDOWN SPECTROMETER; POUND-DREVER-HALL TECHNIQUE;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 33646851036     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000727     Document Type: Article

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