Current status of midinfrared quantum and interband cascade lasers for clinical breath analysis

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Risby, Terence H ^a   Tittel, Frank K ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

breath sampling; interband cascade lasers; midinfrared semiconductor laser based chemical sensor; quantum cascade lasers; real time breath analysis; single frequency, tunable external cavity quantum cascadeinterband lasers

Indexed keywords

BREATH SAMPLING; INTERBAND CASCADE LASERS; MIDINFRARED; REAL-TIME BREATH ANALYSIS; SINGLE-FREQUENCY, TUNABLE EXTERNAL CAVITY QUANTUM CASCADEINTERBAND LASERS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953849290     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3498768     Document Type: Article

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