Dual interband cascade laser based trace-gas sensor for environmental monitoring

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 33, 2007, Pages 8202-8210

  Wysocki, Gerard ^a   Bakhirkin, Yury ^a   So, Stephen ^a   Tittel, Frank K ^a   Hill, Cory J ^b   Yang, Rui Q ^b   Fraser, Matthew P ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHANE; FORMALDEHYDE; REACTION KINETICS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

DUAL INTERBAND CASCADE LASERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SENSOR PERFORMANCE; TRACE-GAS SENSORS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 38849178779     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.008202     Document Type: Article

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