Frequency-comb infrared spectrometer for rapid, remote chemical sensing

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 9029-9038

  Schliesser, Albert ^a   Brehm, Markus ^a   Keilmann, Fritz ^a   Van Der Weide, Daniel W ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PROTEINS; REMOTE SENSING; SOLID STATE LASERS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR FLUCTUATIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING DYNAMICS; REMOTE CHEMICAL SENSING; TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY;

INFRARED SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 27544500055     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009029     Document Type: Article

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