Off-axis cavity enhanced spectroscopy based on a pulsed quantum cascade laser for sensitive detection of ammonia and ethylene

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 5302-5308

  Manne, Jagadeeshwari ^a   Lim, Alan ^a   Jäger, Wolfgang ^a   Tulip, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMMONIA; ETHYLENE; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CAVITY ENHANCED ABSORPTION; CAVITY ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; HIGH-FINESSE CAVITY; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; PULSED QUANTUM CASCADE; SENSITIVE DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 77957594377     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.005302     Document Type: Article

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