High-speed off-axis cavity ring-down spectroscopy with a re-entrant configuration for spectral resolution enhancement

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4845-4858

  Courtois, Jérémie ^a   Mohamed, Ajmal Khan ^a   Romanini, Daniele ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY EXCITATION; CAVITY RESONANCES; CAVITY RING-DOWN SPECTROSCOPY; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; FREQUENCY SCANS; HIGH-SPEED; LOW PRESSURES; OFF-AXIS; RE-ENTRANT CONFIGURATION; RING-DOWN SIGNALS;

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EID: 77749344615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004845     Document Type: Article

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