Pulsed laser photofragment emission for detection of mercuric chloride

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 6180-6186

  Hoops, Alexandra A ^a   Reichardt, Thomas A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLUE GASES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

EMISSION CROSS SECTIONS; PHOTOPRODUCTS; PULSED LASER PHOTOFRAGMENT EMISSION (PFE); QUENCHING RATE CONSTANTS;

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 33749829902     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006180     Document Type: Article

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