Broadband time-domain absorption spectroscopy with a ns-pulse supercontinuum source

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 22762-22771

  Sych, Yaroslav ^a   Engelbrecht, Rainer ^a   Schmauss, Bernhard ^a   Kozlov, Dimitrii ^b   Seeger, Thomas ^a,c   Leipertz, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS ABSORPTION; LIGHT SOURCES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

1064 NM; ABSORPTION BAND; ACQUISITION TIME; BROAD BAND ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CONCENTRATION VALUES; MIXTURE COMPONENTS; MOLAR CONCENTRATION; ND : YAG LASERS; REAL TIME; RELATIVE ERRORS; SPECIES CONCENTRATION; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; SWEPT-WAVELENGTH LIGHT SOURCES; TIME DOMAIN; TIME INTERVAL; TIME-SCALES; TRANSMITTED LIGHT; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 78149370593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022762     Document Type: Article

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