Improved sensitivity gas detection by spontaneous Raman scattering

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 4424-4429

  Buric, Michael P ^a,b   Chen, Kevin P ^a,b   Falk, Joel ^a,b   Woodruff, Steven D ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; SILICA;

BACKGROUND NOISE; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; RAPID DETECTION; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPONTANEOUS RAMAN; SPONTANEOUS RAMAN SCATTERING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CCD;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 68749097178     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004424     Document Type: Article

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