Ppb-level formaldehyde detection using a CW room-Temperature interband cascade laser and a miniature dense pattern multipass gas cell

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 19821-19830

  Dong, Lei ^a,b   Yu, Yajun ^a   Li, Chunguang ^a   So, Stephen ^c   Tittel, Frank K ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Sentinel Photonics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; DIRECT ABSORPTION; FORMALDEHYDE DETECTION; INTERBAND CASCADE LASER; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; THERMOELECTRICALLY-COOLED; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY;

FORMALDEHYDE;

EID: 84954116689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.019821     Document Type: Article

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