Movable fiber probe for gas-phase laserinduced breakdown spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 31, 2008, Pages

  Dumitrescu, Cosmin E ^a   Puzinauskas, Paulius V ^a   Olcmen, Semih ^b  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

^b Box 870280   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GASES; LASER BEAMS; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY; PROBES;

EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; FIBER TRANSMISSIONS; HYDROGEN EMISSIONS; LASERINDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS); LINEAR VARIATION; METHANE-AIR MIXTURE; PLASMA CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL COLLECTION;

FIBERS;

EID: 60649118561     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000G88     Document Type: Article

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