Sub-parts-per-billion level detection of dimethyl methyl phosphonate (DMMP) by quantum cascade laser photoacoustic spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1543-1548

  Mukherjee, Anadi ^a   Dunayevskiy, Ilya ^a   Prasanna, Manu ^a   Go, Rowel ^a   Tsekoun, Alexei ^a   Wang, Xiaojun ^b   Fan, Jenyu ^b   Patel, C Kumar N ^a,c  

^a Pranalytica Inc   (United States)

^b ADTECH OPTICS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; CHEMICAL ATTACK; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICAL WARFARE; ERRORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BATTLEFIELD ENVIRONMENTS; DETECTION LEVELS; DETECTION OF CHEMICALS; DETECTION THRESHOLD; DIMETHYL METHYLPHOSPHONATE; FALSE ALARM RATE; PARTS PER BILLION; TERRORIST ATTACKS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY;

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; METHYLPHOSPHONIC ACID DIMETHYL ESTER; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ACOUSTICS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PHOTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 48849100574     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001543     Document Type: Article

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