Fourier transform spectroscopy with a laser frequency comb

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 99-102

  Mandon, Julien ^a   Guelachvili, Guy ^a   Picqué, Nathalie ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SENSITIVITIES; BROADBAND ABSORPTION; FOURIER SPECTROMETER; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR FINGERPRINTING; OPTICAL MODIFICATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES;

LIGHT SOURCES; SPECTROMETERS;

SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 59349112218     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.293     Document Type: Article

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