Chemical sensors based on quantum cascade lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4817, Issue , 2002, Pages 8-13

  Tittel, Frank K ^a   Kosterev, Anatoliy A ^a   Rochat, Michel ^b   Beck, Mattias ^b   Faist, Jerome ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL SENSORS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PYROELECTRICITY; SCANNING; THERMOELECTRICITY; WATER;

PYROELECTRIC DETECTOR; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REPETITION RATE MODULATION; TRACE GASES; WAVELENGTH MODULATION;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0036448051     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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