Widely tunable Cr2+:ZnSe laser source for trace-gas sensing

OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series

Volumn 98, Issue , 2005, Pages 826-830

  Sorokin, Evgeni ^a   Sorokina, Irina T ^a   Fischer, Cornelia ^b   Sigrist, Markus W ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; TRACE ANALYSIS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC GAS DETECTION; TRACE-GAS SENSING;

LASERS;

EID: 33645233481     PISSN: 10945695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2005.826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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