High-sensitivity mid-infrared heterodyne spectrometer with a tunable diode laser as a local oscillator

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 5771-5776

  Schmülling, Frank ^a   Klumb, Bärbel ^a   Harter, Markus ^a,b   Schieder, Rudolf ^a   Vowinkel, Bernd ^a   Winnewisser, Gisbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b AICAT GmbH   (Germany)

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EID: 0000094646     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005771     Document Type: Article

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