Cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy using a broadband prism cavity and a supercontinuum source

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 15013-15023

  Johnston, Paul S ^a   Lehmann, Kevin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; FUSED SILICA; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHTING; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; PRISMS; SPECTROMETERS;

CAVITY ENHANCED ABSORPTION; CAVITY ENHANCED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; EXCITATION SOURCES; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; RETRO-REFLECTORS; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 51849161518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015013     Document Type: Article

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