Sub-ppbv nitric oxide concentration measurements using cw thermoelectrically cooled quantum cascade laser-based integrated cavity output spectroscopy

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 149-154

  Bakhirkin, Y A ^a   Kosterev, A A ^a   Curl, R F ^a   Tittel, F K ^a   Yarekha, D A ^b   Hvozdara, L ^b   Giovannini, M ^b   Faist, J ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Universite de Neuchatel Institut de Physique   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LASER THEORY; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITRIC OXIDE; OPTICAL CAVITIES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASER-BASED INTEGRATED CAVITY OUTPUT SPECTROSCOPY;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

EID: 29044437356     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-005-2058-0     Document Type: Article

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