Ultra-sensitive chemical vapor detection using Micro-Cavity PhotoThermal Spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22174-22186

  Hu, Juejun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; MICROCAVITIES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; SENSORS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VAPORS;

CAVITY QUALITY FACTOR; CHALCOGENIDE GLASS; CHEMICAL VAPOR; CHEMICAL VAPOR DETECTION; DEVICE DESIGN; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; MOLECULAR SPECIES; MULTI-PASS; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PHOTO-THERMAL; PHOTOTHERMAL SPECTROSCOPIES; PUMP LASER; SENSITIVE METHOD; SENSOR MATERIALS; THEORETICAL MODELS; ULTRASENSITIVE DETECTION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

CHALCOGEN; GLASS;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHYSICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; CHALCOGENS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLASS; HOT TEMPERATURE; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHYSICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 78049495527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022174     Document Type: Article

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