Sensing of formaldehyde using a distributed feedback interband cascade laser emitting around 3493 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 6009-6013

  Lundqvist, Stefan ^a   Kluczynski, Pawel ^a   Weih, Robert ^c   Von Edlinger, Michael ^c   Nähle, Lars ^b   Fischer, Marc ^b   Bauer, Adam ^c   Höfling, Sven ^c   Koeth, Johannes ^b  

^a Airoptic Sp z oo   (Poland)

^b NANOPLUS NANOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DIRECT ABSORPTION; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; INTERBAND CASCADE LASER; MEASUREMENTS OF; PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORIES; RELATIVE ABSORPTIONS; RESOLUTION LIMITS;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84866332700     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.006009     Document Type: Article

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