Terms sourced from: 10.1351/pac199567111913

"Nomenclature, symbols, units, and their usage in spectrochemical analysis-XV. Laser-based molecular spectroscopy for chemical analysis - laser fundamentals (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)", Moore, D.S.;Vo-dinh, T.;Velthorst, N.H.;Schrader, B., Pure and Applied Chemistry 1995, 67(11), 1913

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