Applications of a compact photothermal-deflection-based setup for trace-gas detection in real-time in situ environmental monitoring and chemical analysis

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 3188-3194

  Zimering, Bob L ^a   Boccara, A Claude ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Biomonitors; Environmental monitoring; Photothermal deflection spectroscopy; Polymer photochemistry; Trace gas detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001626122     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003188     Document Type: Article

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