Femtosecond frequency comb based distance measurement in air

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 9300-9313

  Balling, Petr ^a   Křen, Petr ^a   Mašika, Pavel ^a   Van Den Berg, S A ^b  

^a CZECH METROLOGY INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b VSL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL FIBERS;

FEMTOSECOND FREQUENCY COMBS; FRINGE CONTRASTS; INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; LONG DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; PULSE PROPAGATION; RADIATION DELIVERY; SPECTRAL WIDTHS;

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LIGHT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66449127934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009300     Document Type: Article

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