MASERATI: A rocketborne tunable diode laser absorption spectrometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 25, 1999, Pages 5338-5349

  Lübken, Franz Josef ^a   Dingler, Florian ^a   Lucke, Henrich Von ^a   Anders, Joachim ^b   Riedel, Wolfgang J ^b   Wolf, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CALIBRATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER TUNING; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; VAPORS; WATER;

MESOSPHERE;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0345504199     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005338     Document Type: Article

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