Determination of N2O isotopomers with quantum cascade laser based absorption spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 9239-9244

  Waechter, Helen ^a   Mohn, Joachim ^b   Tuzson, Bela ^b   Emmenegger, Lukas ^b   Sigrist, Markus W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; NITROGEN OXIDES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

AVERAGING TIME; DIRECT ABSORPTION; HIGH-PRECISION; ISOTOPE RATIO; ISOTOPIC SPECIES; MIXING RATIOS; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; SITE-SPECIFIC;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID STATE LASER;

LASERS, SOLID-STATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NITROUS OXIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 45249119477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009239     Document Type: Article

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