High bandwidth absorption spectroscopy with a dispersed supercontinuum source

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11385-11395

  Hult, Johan ^a   Watt, Rosalynne S ^a   Kaminski, Clemens F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BANDWIDTH; DISPERSIONS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

REPETITION RATES; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 34548386212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011385     Document Type: Article

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