Hollow waveguide infrared gas sensing for biomedical applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4957, Issue , 2003, Pages 116-123

  Charlton, C ^a   Inberg, A ^b   Croitoru, N ^b   Mizaikoff, B ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breath analysis; Chemical sensors; Hollow waveguides; Mid infrared gas sensors; Quantum cascade lasers

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BREATH ANALYSIS; LIQUID PHASE ANALYSIS; MID-INFRARED GAS SENSORS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0345714578     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.485412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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