Mid-infrared tunable laser environmental tracer species measurement

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 34-38

  Kolb, C E ^a   McManus, J B ^a   Nelson, D D ^a   Wormhoudt, J C ^a   Zahniser, M S ^a  

^a AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AIR POLLUTION; CRYOGENICS; ETALONS; GASES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEASUREMENTS; MIRRORS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ATMOSPHERIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GASES; EDDY CORRELATION FLUX MEASUREMENT; MID INFRARED TUNABLE LASER; TRACE POLLUTANTS; TUNABLE INFRARED LASER DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030242913     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.7.9.000034     Document Type: Article

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