Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy of Molecular Transients of Astrophysical Interest

Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy: Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 145-179

  Linnartz, Harold ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cavity enhanced techniques in astronomically driven spectroscopic research; CW cavity ring down spectroscopy; Frequency plasma double modulation spectroscopy the detection scheme; Gas phase processes driven by cosmic ray ionization; Molecular transients of astrophysical interest; Optical frequency modulation (FM) absorption spectroscopy; Plasma techniques cell discharges and plasma expansions; Pulsed cavity ring down spectroscopy; Resonant enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI); Rotational resolution in laboratory spectra

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886526484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308259.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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