QEPAS based detection of broadband absorbing molecules using a widely tunable, cw quantum cascade laser at 8.4 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7357-7366

  Lewicki, Rafal ^a   Wysocki, Gerard ^a   Kosterev, Anatoliy A ^a   Tittel, Frank K ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTRA; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM THEORY;

OPTICAL OUTPUT POWER; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUARTZ ENHANCED PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 34250333048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007357     Document Type: Article

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