Narrow-linewidth vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers for oxygen detection

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2475-2479

  Zappe, Hans P ^a   Hess, Martin ^a   Moser, Michael ^a   Hövel, Rainer ^a   Gulden, Karlheinz ^a   Gauggel, Hans Peter ^a   Monti Di Sopra, Fabrice ^a  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT MODULATION; OXYGEN;

TRACE GAS DETECTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0001188078     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002475     Document Type: Article

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