Cavity ringdown spectroscopic detection of nitric oxide with a continuous-wave quantum-cascade laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 30, 2001, Pages 5522-5529

  Kosterev, Anatoliy A ^a   Malinovsky, Alexander L ^a   Tittel, Frank K ^a   Gmachl, Claire ^b   Capasso, Federico ^b   Sivco, Deborah L ^b   Baillargeon, James N ^b   Hutchinson, Albert L ^b   Cho, Alfred Y ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DATA ACQUISITION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

CAVITY RINGDOWN SPECTROSCOPY;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0001045871     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005522     Document Type: Article

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