Laser absorption spectroscopy of water vapor confined in nanoporous alumina: Wall collision line broadening and gas diffusion dynamics

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16460-16473

  Svensson, Tomas ^a   Lewander, Märta ^a   Svanberg, Sune ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DIFFUSION IN GASES; GAS ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

FREE MOLECULES; GAS DIFFUSION; GAS-SURFACE INTERACTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; LINE BROADENING; MULTIPLE LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOPOROUS ALUMINA; PATHLENGTHS; TUNABLE DIODE LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; WALL COLLISION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; WATER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; DIODE LASER; GAS; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER VAPOR;

ABSORPTION; ALUMINUM OXIDE; DIFFUSION; GASES; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STEAM; WATER;

EID: 77955628926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016460     Document Type: Article

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