Detection of ammonia by photoacoustic spectroscopy with semiconductor lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1815-1823

  Schmohl, Andreas ^a   Miklós, Andräs ^a   Hess, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ACOUSTIC RESONATORS; ADSORPTION; DESORPTION; GAS DYNAMICS; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

INFRARED QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

AMMONIA;

EID: 0037139033     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001815     Document Type: Article

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