Sensitive, real-time interband cascade laser based sensor for ethane monitoring

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Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bakhikrin, Yury A ^a   Wysocki, Gerard ^a   Fraser, Matthew P ^a   Yang, Rui Q ^b   Tittel, Frank K ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHANE; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DETECTION SENSITIVITY; INTERBAND CASCADE LASER; MIDINFRARED; WAVELENGTH MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 84899031525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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