Photoacoustic spectroscopy on trace gases with continuously tunable CO2 laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 4065-4085

  Repond, Philippe ^a   Sigrist, Markus W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Detection selectivity; Multicomponent gas analysis; Pulsed photoacoustics in gases; Saturation phenomena.

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANE; MICROPHONES; OZONE; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TOLUENE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BEER-LAMBERT LAW; DETECTION SELECTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PERTURBATIONS; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; FARADAY CAGE; MULTICOMPONENT GAS ANALYSIS; TRACE GAS; WAVELENGTH;

PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0030188542     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.004065     Document Type: Article

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