The NPL Rydberg constant experiment

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 331-335

  Flowers, Jeffrey L ^a   Baird, Patrick E G ^b   Bougueroua, Lamine ^a,b   Klein, Hugh A ^a   Margolis, Helen S ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Femtosecond comb; Hydrogen; Rydberg constant; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; METASTABLE PHASES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTONS;

AC STRAK SHIFTS; FEMTOSECOND COMB; OPTICAL FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS;

RYDBERG STATES;

EID: 34047203908     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.890598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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