Multipass acoustically open photoacoustic detector for trace gas measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2529-2534

  Miklós, András ^a   Pei, Shan Chuang ^b   Kung, A H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTODETECTORS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

PHOTOACOUSTIC DETECTOR; TUNABLE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR; ULTRASONIC SENSOR;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 33744481052     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002529     Document Type: Article

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