On-line multicomponent trace-gas analysis with a broadly tunable pulsed difference-frequency laser spectrometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4691-4698

  Seiter, Michael ^a   Sigrist, Markus W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; LITHIUM NIOBATE; METHANE; NEODYMIUM LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

TRACE-GAS ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032620982     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004691     Document Type: Article

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