Ammonia monitoring near 1.5 μm with diode–laser absorption sensors

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2031-2042

  Webber, Michael E ^a,b   Baer, Douglas S ^c   Hanson, Ronald K ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Pranalytica Inc   (United States)

^c Informed Diagnostics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL SENSORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DIODE-LASER SENSORS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0000885618     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002031     Document Type: Article

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