spectral line profiles

Laser Spectroscopy Podcast by Peter Beyersdorf

Oct 22, 200901:15:28Science & Medicine

We look at how the natural lifetime of an energy level produces a Lorentzian line profile and how the natural linewidth can be broadened by Doppler broadening, pressure broadening, transit time broadening and saturation...

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