Distributed-feedback-laser-based NICE-OHMS in the pressure-broadened regime

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 18580-18591

  Foltynowicz, Aleksandra ^a   Wang, Junyang ^a   Ehlers, Patrick ^a   Axner, Ove ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACETYLENE; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY;

ACOUSTO-OPTICS; CENTER FREQUENCY; DETECTION PHASE; DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; FIBER-COUPLED; INTEGRATION TIME; LINE STRENGTH; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; OPTICAL HETERODYNE; PRESSURE-BROADENING COEFFICIENTS; RESONANCE ABSORPTION; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; SYSTEM-BASED; TRANSITION PARAMETER;

FEEDBACK;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; PRESSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ACOUSTICS; CALIBRATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PRESSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77956365638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018580     Document Type: Article

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