Applications of midinfrared quantum cascade lasers to spectroscopy

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Hancock, Gus ^a   Ritchie, Grant ^a   Van Helden, Jean Pierre ^a   Walker, Richard ^a   Weidmann, Damien ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lamb dip; midinfrared; modulation spectroscopy; quantum cascade laser; rapid passage; reaction kinetics

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND ABSORBERS; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; CONTINUOUS WAVE; DOPPLER; EXTERNAL CAVITY; GAS-PHASE SPECIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; KINETIC PROCESS; LAMB-DIP MEASUREMENTS; LASER LINE-WIDTH; LASER SCANS; MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE; MIDINFRARED; MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY; PULSED SYSTEMS; QUANTUM CASCADES; RAPID PASSAGE; SHORT-LIVED SPECIES; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME-RESOLVED; TUNING RANGES; WAVELENGTH MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; GAS DYNAMICS; MODULATION; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REACTION KINETICS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 79953846676     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3498770     Document Type: Review

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