Cavity-enhanced quantum-cascade laser-based instrument for carbon monoxide measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 31, 2005, Pages 6712-6717

  Provencal, Robert ^a   Gupta, Manish ^a   Owano, Thomas G ^a   Baer, Douglas S ^a   Ricci, Kenneth N ^a   O'Keefe, Anthony ^a   Podolske, James R ^b  

^a Los Gatos Research Inc   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE;

GAS-SAMPLING SYSTEMS; QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 28444473074     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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