Shot-noise-limited dual-beam detector for atmospheric trace-gas monitoring with near-infrared diode lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 30, 2000, Pages 5609-5619

  Durry, Georges ^a   Pouchet, Ivan ^a   Amarouche, Nadir ^b   Danguy, Théodore ^b   Megie, Gerard ^a  

^a SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; LASER TUNING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS;

DUAL-BEAM DETECTORS;

SHOT NOISE;

EID: 0001426595     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005609     Document Type: Article

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