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Narrow optical interference fringes for certain setup conditions in multipass absorption cells of the Herriott type
Applied Optics
|June 22, 2010
Abstract:
We can select narrow FSR fringes in a multipass cell of the type described by Herriott et al. by setting the mirror spacing to give a particular type of beam path: M = odd integer, N = 4M +/- 4.
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