Room-temperature mid-infrared single-photon spectral imaging

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 788-793

  Dam, Jeppe Seidelin ^a   Tidemand Lichtenberg, Peter ^a   Pedersen, Christian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; EXCITATION SOURCES; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; SINGLE-PHOTON IMAGING; SPECTRAL FINGERPRINTS; VALUABLE CHEMICALS; INCOHERENT LIGHT; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL DETECTION; DIAGNOSIS; PHOTONS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84868567381     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.231     Document Type: Article

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