Comparison of a transmission grating spectrometer to a reflective grating spectrometer for standoff laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2010, Pages C200-C210

  Weisberg, Arel ^a   Craparo, Joseph ^a   De Saro, Robert ^a   Pawluczyk, Romuald ^b  

^a Energy Research Company   (United States)

^b P and P Optica Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; BLENDING; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EMISSION PEAKS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; LASERINDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS); REFLECTIVE GRATINGS; SPECTRAL RANGE; STAND-OFF DISTANCE (SOD); TRANSMISSION GRATINGS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 77955968754     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.00C200     Document Type: Article

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