Long-term stability in continuous wave cavity ringdown spectroscopy experiments

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1378-1387

  Huang, Haifeng ^a   Lehmann, Kevin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTRA; DECAY (ORGANIC); DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

AMBIENT PRESSURES; CONTINUOUS-WAVE CAVITY; DIFFERENTIAL MEASUREMENTS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LONG TERM DRIFT; LONG TERM STABILITY; METHANE DETECTION; OPTIMUM INTEGRATION TIME;

METHANE;

EID: 77949963445     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.001378     Document Type: Article

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