Optically multiplexed multi-gas detection using quantum cascade laser photoacoustic spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 4884-4887

  Mukherjee, Anadi ^a   Prasanna, Manu ^a   Lane, Michael ^a   Go, Rowel ^a   Dunayevskiy, Ilya ^a   Tsekoun, Alexei ^a   Patel, C Kumar N ^a,b  

^a Pranalytica Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GAS DETECTORS; GASES; LASER BEAMS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLYOLS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DIMETHYL METHYLPHOSPHONATE; GAS DETECTION; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; HIGH THROUGHPUT; MULTI-SPECIES; OPTICAL MULTIPLEXING; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; TRACE GAS DETECTION;

PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 56849090129     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.004884     Document Type: Article

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