Ultrasensitive near-infrared integrated cavity output spectroscopy technique for detection of CO at 1.57 μm: New sensitivity limits for absorption measurements in passive optical cavities

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 36, 2006, Pages 9221-9229

  Engel, Gregory S ^a   Drisdell, Walter S ^a   Keutsch, Frank N ^a   Moyer, Elisabeth J ^a   Anderson, James G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL SENSORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; RESONANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PASSIVE CAVITIES; PATH LENGTH; SPOT PATTERNS; TRACE GASES;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 33846892722     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.009221     Document Type: Article

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