Hollow fibers for compact infrared gas sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6901, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lambrecht, A ^a   Hartwig, S ^a   Herbst, J ^a   Wollenstein J ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Explosive detection; Gas sensors; Hollow fibers; Infrared; Photonic bandgap fibers

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; EXPLOSIVES; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EXPLOSIVE DETECTION; HOLLOW FIBERS; INFRARED GAS SENSORS; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 43249089283     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.761539     Document Type: Conference Paper

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