Surface-enhanced mid-infrared spectroscopy using a quantum cascade laser

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5670-5680

  Hasenkampf, Anton ^a   Kröger, Niels ^a   Schönhals, Arthur ^a   Petrich, Wolfgang ^a   Pucci, Annemarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT SOURCES; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SPECTROMETERS;

INFRARED LIGHT; INFRARED VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA; MICRO-SPECTROMETER; MICROBOLOMETER ARRAYS; MID-INFRARED RANGE; MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 84981344720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.005670     Document Type: Article

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