Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy for Combustion studies

Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy: Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 273-311

  Mercier, Xavier ^a   Desgroux, Pascale ^a  

^a PhysicoChimie des Processus de Combustion et de l'Atmosphere   (France)

Author keywords

Cavity ring down spectroscopy (CRDS) for combustion studies; Cavity ring down spectroscopy in flames; Concentration profile determination; ICLAS method (Intracavity Laser Absorption Spectroscopy); Laser induced fluorescence (LIF); Measured decay signal for CRD technique accuracy; Mode matching of laser beam to ring down cavity; Molecular beam mass spectrometry (MBMS); Quantitative CRD in flames; Ring down cavity for low pressure flames

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886549703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308259.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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