Development of an IR tunable diode laser absorption spectrometer for trace humidity measurements at atmospheric pressure

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4699-4704

  Edwards, Christopher S ^a   Barwood, Geoffrey P ^a   Gill, Patrick ^a   Schirmer, Bernd ^b   Venzke, Holger ^b   Melling, Adrian ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRACE ANALYSIS; WATER ABSORPTION;

FREQUENCY MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY (FMS); LASER DIODE ABSORPTION SPECTROMETERS; TWO-TONE FREQUENCY MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY (TTFMS); WAVELENGTH MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY (WMS);

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032620859     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004699     Document Type: Article

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