Atmospheric observations of multiple molecular species using ultra-high-resolution external cavity quantum cascade laser heterodyne radiometry

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1951-1953

  Weidmann, Damien ^a   Tsai, Tracy ^b   Macleod, Neil A ^a   Wysocki, Gerard ^b  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; ATMOSPHERIC SPECIES; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSIONS; COMPARISON MEASUREMENT; CONTINUOUS TUNING; DICHLORODIFLUOROMETHANE; EXTERNAL CAVITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LASER HETERODYNE; LO FREQUENCY; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; MODE-HOP-FREE; MOLECULAR SPECIES; NITROUS OXIDE; QUANTUM CASCADES; SOLAR OCCULTATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERMAL IR; TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; WIDELY TUNABLE LASERS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASERS; METHANE; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SPECTROMETERS; WATER VAPOR;

HETERODYNING;

EID: 79958230330     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001951     Document Type: Article

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