Portable open-path chemical sensor using a quantum cascade laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7312, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Corrigan, Paul ^a   Lwin, Maung ^a   Huntley, Reuven ^a   Chhabra, Amandeep ^a   Moshary, Fred ^a   Gross, Barry ^a   Ahmed, Samir ^a  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PLUMES; CHEMICAL SPECIES; COMMERCIAL COMPONENTS; DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROMETER; GROUND LEVEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE; NEAR INFRARED; NEW YORK; OPEN-PATH; PARTS PER BILLION; PARTS PER MILLIONS; PATH LENGTH; REAL TIME; SENSING APPLICATIONS; THEORETICAL APPROACH; TRACE GAS DETECTION; TRACE-GAS SENSORS;

EXPLOSIVES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAS ABSORPTION; GAS DETECTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; OZONE; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 69649083511     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.820687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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