Application of balanced detection to absorption measurements of trace gases with room-temperature, quasi-cw quantum-cascade lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 812-820

  Sonnenfroh, David M ^a   Rawlins, W Terry ^a   Allen, Mark G ^a   Gmachl, Claire ^b   Capasso, Federico ^b   Hutchinson, Albert L ^b   Sivco, Deborah L ^b   Baillargeon, James N ^b   Cho, Alfred Y ^b  

^a PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL SENSORS; SPECTROMETERS;

QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 0001045870     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000812     Document Type: Article

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