A quantum cascade laser cw cavity ringdown spectrometer coupled to a supersonic expansion source

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Brumfield, Brian E ^a   Stewart, Jacob T ^a   Widicus Weaver, Susanna L ^a,c   Escarra, Matthew D ^b   Howard, Scott S ^b,d   Gmachl, Claire F ^b   McCall, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; BUCKMINSTERFULLERENES; CAVITY RING-DOWN; CONTINUOUS-WAVE CAVITY; EFFECTIVE HAMILTONIAN; FABRY-PEROT; GASPHASE; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTRA; ISOTOPOLOGUES; LASER FREQUENCY; NEW INSTRUMENT; ROTATIONAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL SIMULATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEP SIZE; SUPERSONIC EXPANSION SOURCES; SUPERSONIC SOURCES; VIBRATIONAL BANDS;

GAS ABSORPTION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SPECTROMETERS;

SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 77954198587     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3427357     Document Type: Article

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