Detecting localized trace species in air using radar resonance-enhanced multi-photon ionization

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Dogariu, Arthur ^a   Miles, Richard B ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; IONIZATION; PHOTONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AIR; DETECTION LIMITS; LINEAR RESPONSE; MICROWAVE SCATTERING; MOLECULAR SPECIES; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; RESONANCE ENHANCED; STANDOFF DETECTION;

PHOTOIONIZATION;

EID: 79551509785     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000A68     Document Type: Article

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