Aspects of the application of cavity enhanced spectroscopy to nitrogen oxides detection

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7570-7598

  Wojtas, Jacek ^a   Mikolajczyk, Janusz ^a   Bielecki, Zbigniew ^a  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Absorption spectroscopy; CEAS; CRDS; Detection; Explosives detection; Laser spectroscopy; Nitrogen oxides detection

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DECOMPOSITION; ERROR DETECTION; EXPLOSIVES; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; NITROGEN OXIDES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VAPORS;

BLUE-VIOLET LASER DIODES; CAVITY ENHANCED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CAVITY ENHANCED SPECTROSCOPY; CEAS; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; CRDS; LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EID: 84879030710     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130607570     Document Type: Review

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