Improving long-path differential optical absorption spectroscopy with a quartz-fiber mode mixer

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1105-1115

  Stutz, Jochen ^a,b   Platt, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential optical absorption spectroscopy; Measurement techniques; Quartz fibers

Indexed keywords

ETALONS; GASES; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; MIXER CIRCUITS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTODIODES; POLYNOMIALS; QUARTZ; SPECTROGRAPHS; TELESCOPES; TRACE ELEMENTS; TROPOSPHERE;

ANGULAR INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; COAXIAL TELESCOPE; DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; QUARTZ FIBER MODE MIXER; TROPOSPHERIC TRACE GASES;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0031076542     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001105     Document Type: Article

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