Effective utilization of quantum-cascade distributed-feedback lasers in absorption spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 4425-4430

  Kosterev, Anatoliy A ^a   Curl, Robert F ^a   Tittel, Frank K ^a   Gmachl, Claire ^b   Capasso, Federico ^b   Sivco, Deborah L ^b   Baillargeon, James N ^b   Hutchinson, Albert L ^b   Cho, Alfred Y ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; GAS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ETHANOL; EVALUATION STUDIES; GASES; LASERS; LINEAR MODELS; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ETHANOL; HEAT LOSSES; METHANE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

TRACE-GAS DETECTION;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0034692071     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004425     Document Type: Article

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