Cavity ring-down spectroscopy with a pulsed distributed feedback quantum cascade laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6127, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sukhorukov, O ^a,b   Lytkine, A ^b   Manne, J ^b   Tulip, J ^b   Jager W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Electrical and Computer Engineering Department   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonia; CRDS; Detection; Gas sensor; QCL; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BAND STRUCTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL SENSORS; LASER PULSES; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

CRDS; DETECTION; QCL;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 33646735765     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.644378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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