Monomode interband cascade lasers at 5.2 μm for nitric oxide sensing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 480-482

  Von Edlinger, Michael ^a   Scheuermann, Julian ^a   Weih, Robert ^b   Zimmermann, Christian ^a   Nähle, Lars ^a   Fischer, Marc ^a   Koeth, Johannes ^a   Höfling, Sven ^c   Kamp, Martin ^b  

^a NANOPLUS NANOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback (DFB) laser; interband cascade laser (ICL); midinfrared; nitric oxide (NO) sensing; semiconductor laser; tunable laser absorption spectroscopy (TLAS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894544337     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2297447     Document Type: Article

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