Trace-gas detection in ambient air with a thermoelectrically cooled, pulsed quantum-cascade distributed feedback laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 36, 2000, Pages 6866-6872

  Kosterev, Anatoliy A ^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

GAS DETECTORS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER PULSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ELECTRICAL COUPLINGS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0001752431     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006866     Document Type: Article

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